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

• Autore: Babini Valeria P
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.70945
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; Social history; Italy—History; Literature; History, Modern; European literature; Gender Studies; Social History; History of Italy; Literature, general; Modern History; European Literature
• Persona (resp. second.): BeccalossiChiara; RiallLucy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914
• ISBN: 1-349-48477-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788015803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Genders and Sexualities in History, . 2730-9479