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Autore |
Babini Valeria P |
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Titolo |
Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 / / by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487 |
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Sex |
Social history |
Italy - History |
Literature |
History, Modern |
European literature |
Gender Studies |
Social History |
History of Italy |
Modern History |
European Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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