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Italian sexualities uncovered, 1789-1914 /

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 breaks new ground in the history of nineteenth-century Italy. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating the relationships between th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Babini, Valeria Paola (Autor), Beccalossi, Chiara, 1976- (Autor), Riall, Lucy, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi and Lucy Riall
  • PART I: SEXUALITY, POLITICS AND FAMILY
  • 2. Sexuality and Politics; Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians, Roberto Bizzocchi
  • 3. The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots; Lucy Riall
  • PART II: SEXUALITY, CLASSES AND SOCIAL GROUPS
  • 4. Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion; Pietro Gibellini and Edoardo Ripari
  • 5. After Respectability: Women, Sexuality, and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy; Mark Seymour
  • 6. Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries; Paola Carlucci
  • PART III: WOMEN BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE
  • 7. Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-Unification Italy, 1861-1914; Katharine Mitchell
  • 8. Infanticide and the prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law; Silvia Chiletti
  • 9. Between Public and Private: Sexuality and Maternity in three 'New Women'; Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori, Linda Murri and Valeria P. Babini
  • PART IV: SAME-SEX DESIRES
  • 10. The 'Italian vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy; Chiara Beccalossi
  • 11. J.A. Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality; Sean Brady
  • 12. Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-sex Desire, 1877-1906; Charlotte Ross
  • PART V: MARRIAGES AND SEXUALITY
  • 13. British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844, Ross Balzaretti
  • 14. The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-century Italy; Linda Reeder.