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Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other

  • Enrica Capussotti
© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Editors’ Introduction 1
  5. Part I Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe
  6. Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans 21
  7. Chapter 2 ‘I want to see the world’: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context 45
  8. Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects 68
  9. Intermezzo ‘A Dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant Women 84
  10. Part II Subjectivity in Motion: Analysing the Lives of Migrant Women
  11. Chapter 4 Imaginary Geographies: Border-places and ‘Home’ in the Narratives of Migrant Women 93
  12. Chapter 5 ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism 111
  13. Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work 122
  14. Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women 138
  15. Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings 152
  16. Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women 165
  17. Part III: Processes of Identification: Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Women
  18. Chapter 9 Migration, Integration and Emancipation: Women’s Positioning in the Debate in the Netherlands 175
  19. Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other 195
  20. Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective 212
  21. Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law 228
  22. Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities 243
  23. Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future 251
  24. Appendix 1 Summary of individual interviewees 275
  25. Appendix 2 Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationality 304
  26. Notes on Contributors 314
  27. Index 317
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