Intimacy and Italian Migration : : Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World / / ed. by Donna R. Gabaccia, Loretta Baldassar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Baldassar, Loretta,; Bertellini, Giorgio,; De Tona, Carla,; Gabaccia, Donna R.,; McKibben, Carol Lynn,; Miller, Pavla,; Pesman, Ros,; Pojmann, Wendy,; Rieker, Yvonne,; Stabile, Carol A.,; Waldron Merithew, Caroline,; Wessendorf, Susanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Baldassar, Loretta,; Gabaccia, Donna R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Italian America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.) :; 7 Illustrations, black and white

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Home, Family, and the Italian Nation in a MobileWorld -- The National in the Personal through Biography -- The Marriage of Giorgina Craufurd and Aurelio Saffi -- The Atlantic Valentino -- ‘‘George the Queer Danced the Hula’’ -- Domesticating the Diaspora -- ‘‘Italian’’ Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives -- Calculating Babies -- Mothering Contradictory Diasporas -- Love Crossing Borders -- Mothering across Boundaries -- Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation -- Between Public and Private -- State-Imposed Translocalism and the Dream of Returning -- Obligation to People and Place -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index