Loretta (Hrsg.) Baldassar

Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World

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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 howaacross culturesaItalianness 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gabaccia, Donna R. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8232-3184-3
EAN: 9780823231843
Produktnummer: 5968026
Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 235 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 458 g
Gewicht: 458

Über den Autor

Loretta Baldassar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia.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.