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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-Italian-ness 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. This fresh approach is especially useful, they show, in describing women's complex relationship to nations, their transformations of identities through migration, and their unique participation in nation-building.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Home, Family, and the Italian Nation in a Mobile World: The Domestic and the National Among Italy's Immigrants
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. The National in the Personal through Biography
  1. The Marriage of Giorgina Craufurd and Aurelio Saffi: Mazzinian Nationalism and the Italian Home
  2. pp. 25-36
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  1. The Atlantic Valentino: The "Inimitable Lover" As Racialized and Gendered Italian
  2. pp. 37-48
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  1. ‘‘George the Queer Danced the Hula’’: Mike Stabile, American Soldier in Hawaii
  2. pp. 49-68
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  1. Domesticating the Diaspora: Remembering the Life of Katie Derorre
  2. pp. 69-82
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  1. ‘‘Italian’’ Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives
  1. Calculating Babies: Changing Accounts of Fertility Decisions Among Italians In Melbourne, Australia
  2. pp. 85-100
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  1. Mothering Contradictory Diasporas: Negotiation of Traditional Motherhood Roles Among Italian Migrant Women in Ireland
  2. pp. 101-112
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  1. Love Crossing Borders: Changing Patterns of Courtship and Gender Relations Among Italian Migrants in Germany
  2. pp. 113-126
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  1. Mothering across Boundaries: Immigrant Domestic Workers and Gender Roles in Italy
  2. pp. 127-140
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  1. Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation
  1. Between Public and Private: The Transnational Community of Sicilians in Monterey, California
  2. pp. 143-156
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  1. State-Imposed Translocalism and the Dream of Returning: Italian Migrants in Switzerland
  2. pp. 157-170
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  1. Obligation to People and Place: The National in Cultures of Caregiving
  2. pp. 171-188
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 189-216
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 217-220
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 221-236
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