Sabina Donati (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784511
- eISBN:
- 9780804787338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784511.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
“Becoming Visible”: Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State
“Becoming Visible”: Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State
Sabina Donati (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784511
- eISBN:
- 9780804787338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784511.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines citizenship policies, strategies and discourses pertaining to Italian women and men during Mussolini’s regime. Drawing on studies about gender and fascism, it explores the issue ...
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This chapter examines citizenship policies, strategies and discourses pertaining to Italian women and men during Mussolini’s regime. Drawing on studies about gender and fascism, it explores the issue of birth to citizens (jus sanguinis) and the fascist duty of being prolific within a context of eugenic thinking and dictatorial pro-natalist objectives. It also surveys the fascistization of civil, political and social rights, and outlines trends and dilemmas that illustrate the fascist variant of female status civitatis vis-à-vis its counterpart. In the discussion, comparisons are also made with Nazi Germany. Finally, the chapter surveys the major racial discourses that touched upon the notion of Italianness and that were articulated in the peninsula not only during the late fascist period but also throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s. It does so by focusing on racial thinking pertaining to origins of the Italians, anti-Southern prejudices, and anti-Semitism.Less
This chapter examines citizenship policies, strategies and discourses pertaining to Italian women and men during Mussolini’s regime. Drawing on studies about gender and fascism, it explores the issue of birth to citizens (jus sanguinis) and the fascist duty of being prolific within a context of eugenic thinking and dictatorial pro-natalist objectives. It also surveys the fascistization of civil, political and social rights, and outlines trends and dilemmas that illustrate the fascist variant of female status civitatis vis-à-vis its counterpart. In the discussion, comparisons are also made with Nazi Germany. Finally, the chapter surveys the major racial discourses that touched upon the notion of Italianness and that were articulated in the peninsula not only during the late fascist period but also throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s. It does so by focusing on racial thinking pertaining to origins of the Italians, anti-Southern prejudices, and anti-Semitism.
Tanya Hart
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479867998
- eISBN:
- 9781479875184
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479867998.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the sociological, literary and cultural aspects of life that African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women encountered and created after coming to New York ...
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This chapter discusses the sociological, literary and cultural aspects of life that African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women encountered and created after coming to New York City. These women often had parallel and overlapping reasons for their migrations and competed for housing, services, and even prospective sexual mates. In addition, the chapter reconstructs how these poor and working-class women dealt with the vagaries of daily urban living—abandonment, poor health, caring for their children, work, and abandonment—by using census and sociological data from the 1910s and 1920s and Community Organization Society social work interviews of women who lived in Columbus Hill and the Mulberry District.Less
This chapter discusses the sociological, literary and cultural aspects of life that African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women encountered and created after coming to New York City. These women often had parallel and overlapping reasons for their migrations and competed for housing, services, and even prospective sexual mates. In addition, the chapter reconstructs how these poor and working-class women dealt with the vagaries of daily urban living—abandonment, poor health, caring for their children, work, and abandonment—by using census and sociological data from the 1910s and 1920s and Community Organization Society social work interviews of women who lived in Columbus Hill and the Mulberry District.
Sabina Donati (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784511
- eISBN:
- 9780804787338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784511.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter details the genesis and first characteristics of the national civic bond that united the peoples of the peninsula following the unification of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Focusing on ...
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This chapter details the genesis and first characteristics of the national civic bond that united the peoples of the peninsula following the unification of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Focusing on the period from 1859 to 1866, it examines the birth of Italian monarchical subjecthood within the context of national Risorgimento; it outlines the peculiar civic divisions that persisted-during the first years of unified Italy-through the regional application of specific pre-unification citizenship norms; and it then discusses the first post-unification Civil Code, introduced to consolidate nation-statehood with peninsulawide citizenship rules. In the course of the discussion, it also highlights the use of jus sanguinis and jus soli in Italy, and includes a comparison with contemporary Germany. Finally, drawing on current scholarship about racial thinking, it enriches the analysis with references to domestic racial discourse on Southern Italians as “internal Others” within a unified country.Less
This chapter details the genesis and first characteristics of the national civic bond that united the peoples of the peninsula following the unification of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Focusing on the period from 1859 to 1866, it examines the birth of Italian monarchical subjecthood within the context of national Risorgimento; it outlines the peculiar civic divisions that persisted-during the first years of unified Italy-through the regional application of specific pre-unification citizenship norms; and it then discusses the first post-unification Civil Code, introduced to consolidate nation-statehood with peninsulawide citizenship rules. In the course of the discussion, it also highlights the use of jus sanguinis and jus soli in Italy, and includes a comparison with contemporary Germany. Finally, drawing on current scholarship about racial thinking, it enriches the analysis with references to domestic racial discourse on Southern Italians as “internal Others” within a unified country.
Tanya Hart
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479867998
- eISBN:
- 9781479875184
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479867998.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in ...
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Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphilis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation's best health care during this period. This book challenges traditional ideas of early twentieth-century urban black health care by showing a program that was simultaneously racialized and cutting-edge. It reveals that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix.Less
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphilis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation's best health care during this period. This book challenges traditional ideas of early twentieth-century urban black health care by showing a program that was simultaneously racialized and cutting-edge. It reveals that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix.
Nicola Munaro and Cecilia Poletto
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190931247
- eISBN:
- 9780190931285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190931247.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter investigates a phenomenon attested in some Southern Italian varieties, where a form identical to the wh-item meaning “where” can be used as a locative preposition. Since most of the ...
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This chapter investigates a phenomenon attested in some Southern Italian varieties, where a form identical to the wh-item meaning “where” can be used as a locative preposition. Since most of the dialects considered here only use P-where in cases of quasi-inalienable locative possession, this chapter adopts the recent proposal that the structural configuration of inalienable possession is to be interpreted as a RelatorP whose predicative head functions as the relator between the possessor, located in the specifier position, and the possessee, that is, the locative noun, sitting in the complement position. It also proposes that P-where exploits a sort of reduced relative in which the null classifier-like element PLACE located in the internal structure of the wh-item undergoes raising to the highest functional specifier; the reduced relative clause is taken to occupy the specifier of a bigger small clause, whose complement is represented by the RelatorP containing the actual lexical nouns.Less
This chapter investigates a phenomenon attested in some Southern Italian varieties, where a form identical to the wh-item meaning “where” can be used as a locative preposition. Since most of the dialects considered here only use P-where in cases of quasi-inalienable locative possession, this chapter adopts the recent proposal that the structural configuration of inalienable possession is to be interpreted as a RelatorP whose predicative head functions as the relator between the possessor, located in the specifier position, and the possessee, that is, the locative noun, sitting in the complement position. It also proposes that P-where exploits a sort of reduced relative in which the null classifier-like element PLACE located in the internal structure of the wh-item undergoes raising to the highest functional specifier; the reduced relative clause is taken to occupy the specifier of a bigger small clause, whose complement is represented by the RelatorP containing the actual lexical nouns.
