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Baldassar, Loretta
[Contributor];
Baldassar, Loretta
[Editor];
Bertellini, Giorgio
[Contributor];
De Tona, Carla
[Contributor];
Gabaccia, Donna R.
[Contributor];
Gabaccia, Donna R.
[Editor];
McKibben, Carol Lynn
[Contributor];
Miller, Pavla
[Contributor];
Pesman, Ros
[Contributor];
Pojmann, Wendy
[Contributor];
Rieker, Yvonne
[Contributor];
Stabile, Carol A.
[Contributor];
Waldron Merithew, Caroline
[Contributor];
Wessendorf, Susanne
[Contributor]
Intimacy and Italian Migration
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: Intimacy and Italian Migration : Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
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Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Home, Family, and the Italian Nation in a MobileWorld
The National in the Personal through Biography
The Marriage of Giorgina Craufurd and Aurelio Saffi
The Atlantic Valentino
‘‘George the Queer Danced the Hula’’
Domesticating the Diaspora
‘‘Italian’’ Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives
Calculating Babies
Mothering Contradictory Diasporas
Love Crossing Borders
Mothering across Boundaries
Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation
Between Public and Private
State-Imposed Translocalism and the Dream of Returning
Obligation to People and Place
Notes
Contributors
Index
- Contributor: Baldassar, Loretta [Contributor]; Baldassar, Loretta [Editor]; Bertellini, Giorgio [Contributor]; De Tona, Carla [Contributor]; Gabaccia, Donna R. [Contributor]; Gabaccia, Donna R. [Editor]; McKibben, Carol Lynn [Contributor]; Miller, Pavla [Contributor]; Pesman, Ros [Contributor]; Pojmann, Wendy [Contributor]; Rieker, Yvonne [Contributor]; Stabile, Carol A. [Contributor]; Waldron Merithew, Caroline [Contributor]; Wessendorf, Susanne [Contributor]
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Published:
New York, NY: Fordham University Press, [2022]
- Published in: Critical Studies in Italian America
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (245 p.); 7 Illustrations, black and white
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9780823291847
- ISBN: 9780823291847
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- Keywords: HISTORY / Europe / Italy
- Origination:
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Footnote:
In English
- 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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