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Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
Loretta Baldassar
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Description for Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
Paperback. Why do so many people around the world associate people with origins in Italy with family life, romantic love and the pleasures of eating? This title focuses on the intimate relations in the construction of national identities among international migrants. Editor(s): Baldassar, Loretta. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 245 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Series
Critical Studies in Italian America
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823231850
SKU
V9780823231850
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About Loretta Baldassar
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.
Reviews for Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
"A multitude of eminently accessible, albeit primarily scholarly, perspectives under the umbrella of the concept of family and the role of women."
-Maria Enrico Borough of Manhattan Community College "An invitation to the interpretive community of scholars of the Italian diaspora to engage, once and for all, in a discussion that is analytical to the core ... A mosaic ... Read more
-Maria Enrico Borough of Manhattan Community College "An invitation to the interpretive community of scholars of the Italian diaspora to engage, once and for all, in a discussion that is analytical to the core ... A mosaic ... Read more