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Autore: | Babini Valeria P |
Titolo: | Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 / / by Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall |
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.: | 9910812355803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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