Intimacy and Italian migration : gender and domestic lives in a mobile world / edited by Loretta Baldassar and Donna R. Gabaccia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldassar, Loretta,. 1965-

Gabaccia, Donna R.,. 1949-

Series:

Critical studies in Italian America.

Critical studies in Italian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italians--Foreign countries.

Italians.

Immigrants--Family relationships--Italy.

Immigrants.

Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

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 howGacross culturesGItalianness 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 lovedGand left behind.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; The National in the Personal through Biography; ''Italian'' Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives; Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation; Notes; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3186-0

OCLC:

708566777