Intimacy and Italian Migration : Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World Paperback / softback
Edited by Loretta Baldassar, Donna R. Gabaccia
Part of the Critical Studies in Italian America series
Paperback / softback
Description
This provocative collection of essays adds a new dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes.
First, by exploring the private lives of migrants from Italy through biography, oral history, and ethnography, these essays suggest why and how-across cultures-Italianness has come to be associated with a particular kind of femininity and supposedly distinctive elements of domestic life symbolized by long-held stereotypes of the Italian mother.
On a larger scale, while the editors and contributors share with previous works on the Italian diaspora a keen interest in the imagining of nations across national borders, here they refocus our attention to the significance of the domestic, particularly the lives of individual men and women, their families, and the communities they loved-and left behind.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:245 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/2010
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- ISBN:9780823231850
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:245 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823231850
