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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823231852
• ISBN13: 9780823231850
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"