Italian sexualities uncovered, 1789-1914 / Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babini, Valeria Paola, author.

Beccalossi, Chiara, 1976- author.

Riall, Lucy, 1962- author.

Series:

Genders and sexualities in history

Genders and sexualities in history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Italy--History.

Sex.

Italians--Sexual behavior--History.

Italians.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

xv, 326 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 7789-1914 breaks new ground in the history of nineteenth-century Italy. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating the relationships between the personal and political; the presence of male, female and same-sex desires that defied norms of respectability and acceptable gender roles; the sexual behaviour of different classes and subcultures; and transnational sexual encounters. This volume sheds light on the sex lives of nineteenth-century men and women in Italy, on the ways they understood and experienced their sexual desires, and on how their sexual behaviour was organised, regulated and constrained. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Valeria P. Babini Babini, Valeria P., Chiara Beccalossi Beccalossi, Chiara, Lucy Riall Riall, Lucy 1

Part I Sexuality, Politics and Family

2 Sexuality and Politics: Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians / Roberto Bizzocchi Bizzocchi, Roberto 15

3 The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots / Lucy Riall Riall, Lucy 37

Part II Sexuality, Classes and Social Groups

4 Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion / Pietro Gibellini Gibellini, Pietro, Edoardo Ripari Ripari, Edoardo 59

5 After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy / Mark Seymour Seymour, Mark 80

6 Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries / Paola Carlucci Carlucci, Paola 101

Part III Women between the Public and the Private

7 Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861-1914 / Katharine Mitchell Mitchell, Katharine 125

8 Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law / Silvia Chiletti Chiletti, Silvia 143

9 Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three 'New Women': Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri / Valeria P. Babini Babini, Valeria P. 162

Part IV Same-Sex Desires

10 The 'Italian Vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy / Chiara Beccalossi Beccalossi, Chiara 185

11 John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality / Sean Brady Brady, Sean 207

12 Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877-1906 / Charlotte Ross Ross, Charlotte 228

Part V Marriages and Sexuality

13 British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844 / Ross Balzaretti Balzaretti, Ross 251

14 The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy / Linda Reeder Reeder, Linda 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137396976

1137396970

OCLC:

886744092

Publisher Number:

99962680958