| Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World Contributor(s): Baldassar, Loretta (Editor), Gabaccia, Donna R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823231844 ISBN-13: 9780823231843 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.851 |
| LCCN: 2010026348 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Italian America (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.35" W x 9.22" (1.01 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 supposedlydistinctive 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baldassar, Loretta: - Loretta Baldass ar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia.Gabaccia, Donna R.: - Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history at University of Toronto and scholar of international migration, gender and food studies. She has written and edited fifteen books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora. |
