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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788015803321

Autore

Babini Valeria P

Titolo

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-349-48477-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

306.70945

Soggetti

Sociology

Social history

Italy—History

Literature

History, Modern

European literature

Gender Studies

Social History

History of Italy

Literature, general

Modern History

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I: Sexuality, Politics and Family; 2 Sexuality and Politics: Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians; 3 The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots; Part II: Sexuality, Classes and Social Groups; 4 Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion; 5 After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy; 6 Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca:Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries

Part III: Women between the Public and the Private7 Literary and



Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861-1914; 8 Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law; 9 Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three 'New Women': Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri; Part IV: Same-Sex Desires; 10 The 'Italian Vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy; 11 John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality

12 Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877-1906Part V: Marriages and Sexuality; 13 British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844; 14 The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.