Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

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.

Author: Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/20/2015
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781137396976

About the Author
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