Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914 [electronic resource] /
Babini, Valeria P.author.
Beccalossi, Chiara.author.
Riall, Lucy.author.
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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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Social history.
Italy—History.
Literature.
History, Modern.
European literature.
Gender Studies.
Social History.
History of Italy.
Literature, general.
Modern History.
European Literature.