Isbn: 9780823231850 - intimacy and italian migration: gender and domestic lives in a mobile world (10 risultati)

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Condizione: New. Why do so many people around the world associate people with origins in Italy with family life, romantic love and the pleasures of eating? This title focuses on the intimate relations in the construction of national identities among international migrants. Editor(s): Baldassar, Loretta. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 245 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341. . 2010. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . …

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Paperback. Condizione: New. 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 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 loved-and left behind.…

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Condizione: New. Why do so many people around the world associate people with origins in Italy with family life, romantic love and the pleasures of eating? This title focuses on the intimate relations in the construction of national identities among international migrants. Editor(s): Baldassar, Loretta. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America. Num Pages: 245 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341. . 2010. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Paperback. Condizione: New. 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 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 loved-and left behind.…