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.

Italian Sexualities Uncovered presents a series of innovative essays on both hetero- and homosexuality among women and men during the long nineteenth century. Babini, Beccalossi, and Riall are to be commended for putting together such a rich and varied collection of essays. As a pioneering model for subsequent research, Italian Sexualities Uncovered constitutes an essential step toward the incorporation of sexuality into the larger narrative of modern Italian history. (Mary Gibson, Modern Italy, Vol. 21 (2), May, 2016)

Autorentext

Ross Balzaretti, University of Nottingham, UK Roberto Bizzocchi, University of Pisa, Italy Sean Brady, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Paola Carlucci, Università per Stranieri, Siena, Italy Silvia Chiletti, Centre Alexandre Koyré Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France Pietro Gibellini, Ca' Foscari University, Italy Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde, UK Mark Seymour, University of Otago, New Zealand Linda Reeder, University of Missouri, USA Edoardo Ripari PhD, author of studies about Italian literary civilization between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Charlotte Ross, University of Birmingham, UK

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi and Lucy Riall PART I: SEXUALITY, POLITICS AND FAMILY 2. Sexuality and Politics; Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians, Roberto Bizzocchi 3. The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots; Lucy Riall PART II: SEXUALITY, CLASSES AND SOCIAL GROUPS 4. Sex in Belli's Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion; Pietro Gibellini and Edoardo Ripari 5. After Respectability: Women, Sexuality, and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy; Mark Seymour 6. Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries; Paola Carlucci PART III: WOMEN BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE 7. Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-Unification Italy, 1861-1914; Katharine Mitchell 8. Infanticide and the prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law; Silvia Chiletti 9. Between Public and Private: Sexuality and Maternity in three 'New Women'; Sibilla Aleramo, MariaMontessori, Linda Murri and Valeria P. Babini PART IV: SAME-SEX DESIRES 10. The 'Italian vice': Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy; Chiara Beccalossi 11. J. A. Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality; Sean Brady 12. Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-sex Desire, 1877-1906; Charlotte Ross PART V: MARRIAGES AND SEXUALITY 13. British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789-1844, Ross Balzaretti 14. The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-century Italy; Linda Reeder