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

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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 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 loved-and left behind. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Loretta (EDT) Baldassar, Loretta Gabaccia Baldassar, BALDASSAR LORETTA GABACCIA DONNA, Donna R. Gabaccia
• Assisted by: Loretta Baldassar (Editor), Donna R. Gabaccia (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780823231850
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-3185-0
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Critical Studies in Italian America; Critical Studies in Italian Am; Critical Studies in Italian America; Critical Studies in Italian Am
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories