Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Sexuality, Politics and Family -- 2 Sexuality and Politics: Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians -- 3 The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots -- Part II: Sexuality, Classes and Social Groups -- 4 Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion -- 5 After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy -- 6 Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca:Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries -- Part III: Women between the Public and the Private -- 7 Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861-1914 -- 8 Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law -- 9 Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three 'New Women': Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri -- Part IV: Same-Sex Desires -- 10 The 'Italian Vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy -- 11 John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality -- 12 Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877-1906 -- Part V: Marriages and Sexuality -- 13 British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844 -- 14 The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores nineteenth-century Italian sexualities from a variety of viewpoints, illuminating in particular personal and political relationships, same-sex desires, gender roles that defy societal norms, sexual behaviours of different classes and transnational encounters.