Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Sexuality and Politics: Lady Morgan and the Morality of the Italians
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Chapter 3
The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots
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Chapter 4
Sex in Belli’s Rome: Eros, Social Groups and Religion
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Chapter 5
After Respectability: Women, Sexuality and the Circus in Pre-Sexology Italy
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Chapter 6
Sidney Sonnino and Natalia Morozzo della Rocca: Adulterous Love, Aristocracy and Politics between Two Centuries
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Chapter 7
Literary and Epistolary Figurations of Female Desire in Early Post-unification Italy, 1861–1914
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Chapter 8
Infanticide and the Prostitute: Honour, Sentiment and Deviancy between Human Sciences and the Law
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Chapter 9
Between Public and Private. Sexuality and Maternity in Three ‘New Women’: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori and Linda Murri
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Chapter 10
The ‘Italian Vice’: Male Homosexuality and British Tourism in Southern Italy
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Chapter 11
John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown and Venice: Friendship, Gondoliers and Homosexuality
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Chapter 12
Italian Medical and Literary Discourses around Female Same-Sex Desire, 1877–1906
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Chapter 13
British Women Travellers and Italian Marriages, c. 1789–1844
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Chapter 14
The Making of the Italian Husband in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Attention for Chapter 3:
The Sex Lives of Italian Patriots