In this Book
- Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- The National in the Personal through Biography
- ‘‘Italian’’ Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives
- Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation
- Contributors
- pp. 217-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823248957
Related ISBN(s)
9780823231843
MARC Record
OCLC
708566777
Pages
196
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No