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1 online resource |
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Genders and sexualities in history |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 the personal and political; the presence of male, female and same-sex desires that defied norms of respectability and acceptable gender roles; the sexual behaviour of different classes and subcultures; and transnational sexual encounters. This volume sheds light on the sex lives of nineteenth-century men and women in Italy, on the ways they understood and experienced their sexual desires, and how their sexual behaviour was organised, regulated and constrained |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sex -- Italy -- History
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Italians -- Sexual behavior -- History
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Social sciences.
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Social history.
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Sociology.
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Gender identity.
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Social Sciences
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Social Conditions
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Literature
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Sociology
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Gender Identity
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social sciences.
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social history.
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sociology.
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sex role.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Sex
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Beccalossi, Chiara, 1976- author.
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Riall, Lucy, 1962- author.
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| ISBN |
9781137396990 |
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1137396997 |
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9781349484775 |
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1349484776 |
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