Full Description
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.
Contents
1. Introduction; Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi and Lucy Riall PART I: SEXUALITY, POLITICS AND FAMILY 2. Sexuality and Politics; Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians, Roberto Bizzocchi 3. The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots; Lucy Riall PART II: SEXUALITY, CLASSES AND SOCIAL GROUPS 4. Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion; Pietro Gibellini and Edoardo Ripari 5. After Respectability: Women, Sexuality, and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy; Mark Seymour 6. Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries; Paola Carlucci 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 8. Infanticide and the prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law; Silvia Chiletti 9. Between Public and Private: Sexuality and Maternity in three 'New Women'; Sibilla Aleramo, MariaMontessori, Linda Murri and Valeria P. Babini PART IV: SAME-SEX DESIRES 10. The 'Italian vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy; Chiara Beccalossi 11. J. A. Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality; Sean Brady 12. Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-sex Desire, 1877-1906; Charlotte Ross PART V: MARRIAGES AND SEXUALITY 13. British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844, Ross Balzaretti 14. The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-century Italy; Linda Reeder
