Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall

      Pages 1-11

3. Sexuality, Politics and Family

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Sexuality and Politics: Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians

      • Roberto Bizzocchi

      Pages 15-36

   3. The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots

      • Lucy Riall

      Pages 37-56

4. Sexuality, Classes and Social Groups

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Sex in Belli’s Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion

      • Pietro Gibellini, Edoardo Ripari

      Pages 59-79

   3. After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy

      • Mark Seymour

      Pages 80-100

   4. Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries

      • Paola Carlucci

      Pages 101-121

5. Women between the Public and the Private

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861–1914

      • Katharine Mitchell

      Pages 125-142

   3. Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law

      • Silvia Chiletti

      Pages 143-161

   4. Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three ‘New Women’: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri

      • Valeria P. Babini

      Pages 162-181

6. Same-Sex Desires

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. The ‘Italian Vice’: Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy

      • Chiara Beccalossi

      Pages 185-206

   3. John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality

      • Sean Brady

      Pages 207-227

   4. Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877–1906

      • Charlotte Ross

      Pages 228-248

7. Marriages and Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789–1844

      • Ross Balzaretti

      Pages 251-271

   3. The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy

      • Linda Reeder

      Pages 272-290

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.

• History of sexuality
• nineteenth-century Italy
• marriage
• family
• homosexuality
• gender
• Italy
• oral discourse
• women

“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)

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Valeria P. Babini

• Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Chiara Beccalossi

• Birkbeck, University of London, UK

  Lucy Riall

• European University Institute, Italy

  Lucy Riall

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

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