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Gender, Family and Sexuality
Perry Wilson
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Description for Gender, Family and Sexuality
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 364.
This lively collection of essays presents a range of innovative research on the history of the private sphere in Liberal and Fascist Italy, with a particular focus on sexuality, gender and race - all aspects which have received scarce attention in much of the existing historiography. It includes articles on foundlings and their mothers, the role of midwives, changing attitudes to sexuality, adultery trials, the Fascist persecution of homosexuals, debates about divorce and (going beyond Italy to its empire) the treatment of mixed race children and their mothers in Eritrea. Key themes of this collection include the contrasting attitudes of ... Read more
This lively collection of essays presents a range of innovative research on the history of the private sphere in Liberal and Fascist Italy, with a particular focus on sexuality, gender and race - all aspects which have received scarce attention in much of the existing historiography. It includes articles on foundlings and their mothers, the role of midwives, changing attitudes to sexuality, adultery trials, the Fascist persecution of homosexuals, debates about divorce and (going beyond Italy to its empire) the treatment of mixed race children and their mothers in Eritrea. Key themes of this collection include the contrasting attitudes of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403920324
SKU
V9781403920324
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99-15
About Perry Wilson
B. ARMANI Researcher and Writer G. BARRERA Archivist, Direzione Generale per gli Archivi di Stato, Rome, Italy M. R. EBNER Researcher M. GIBSON Professor of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA A. GISSI Lecturer, University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy A. H. CAESAR Professor of Italian, University of Warwick, UK D. ... Read more
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