Baldassar, Loretta. <br/><br/>
Intimacy and Italian Migration :  Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (245 pages) 
 - Critical Studies in Italian America .
 - Critical Studies in Italian America .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The National in the Personal through Biography -- ''Italian'' Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives -- Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/> 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 howGacross culturesGItalianness 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 lovedGand left behind. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823231867 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Italy - Emigration and immigration - Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DG453 -- .I68 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.851