Gender, Family and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy, 1860-1945

Introduction: Gender and the Private Sphere in Liberal and Fascist Italy; P.Willson Marriage on Trial: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century Rome; D.Rizzo Till Death Do Them Part? The Church-State Struggle over Marriage and Divorce, 1860-1914; M.Seymour Motherhood Through the Wheel: The Care of Foundlings in Late Nineteenth-Century Naples; A.M.Tapaninen Family, Marriage and Inheritance Practices of a Jewish Elite in the Age of Emancipation; B.Armani Labelling Women Deviant: Heterosexual Women, Prostitutes and Lesbians in Early Criminological Discourse; M.Gibson Women and the Public/Private Divide: The Salotto , Home and Theatre in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy; A.H.Caesar Between Tradition and Profession. Italian Midwives during the 1930s; A.Gissi The Persecution of Homosexual Men under Fascism; M.R.Ebner Sex, Citizenship and the State: The Construction of the Public and Private Spheres in Colonial Eritrea; G.Barrera The History of Sexuality in Italy (1860-1945); B.P.F.Wanrooij