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

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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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 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 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 lovedaand left behind. Zusammenfassung Offers a collection of essays that adds a dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes. In this book! the editors and contributors share with previous works on the Italian diaspora a keen interest in the imagining of nations across national borders.

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Autori Loretta (EDT) Baldassar, Loretta Gabaccia Baldassar
Con la collaborazione di Loretta Baldassar (Editore), Donna R Gabaccia (Editore), Donna R. Gabaccia (Editore)
Editore Fordham University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 01.12.2010
 
EAN 9780823231843
ISBN 978-0-8232-3184-3
Pagine 245
Serie Critical Studies in Italian America
Critical Studies in Italian Am
Critical Studies in Italian America
Critical Studies in Italian Am
Categorie Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni

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