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Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75545-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-75544-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 15, 2021

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Introduction: British Women in the Italian Risorgimento

Moore, Diana

Pages: 1 –27

[This introductory chapter begins with the correspondence of Julia Salis Schwabe, a respectable widow of a Manchester factory owner, and Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi regarding a shipment of socks and handkerchiefs she planned to send to the famed general. Using Schwabe’s interest in the...
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Presents and Passports: Friendship and the Formation of Revolutionary Networks

Moore, Diana

Pages: 29 –63

[This chapter reveals how Mazzinian women used their traditional domestic, nurturing, and maternal behaviors and identities, as well as the privileges of their British status, to participate in revolution. The first section reveals how they used practices like gift-giving and care for children to...
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Bazaars for Bullets: Fundraising for the Revolution

Moore, Diana

Pages: 65 –99

[This chapter traces British-Italian women’s philanthropic support of the Risorgimento from the 1850s through the mid-1860s. The first section introduces the general culture of volunteerism in mid-nineteenth-century Britain and women’s role within it, before discussing Mazzinian women’s use of...
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Reforming Revolution: Cultural Translation in the Propaganda Campaign

Moore, Diana

Pages: 101 –138

[This chapter analyzes how British-Italian women utilized their transnational identities and understanding of British anti-Catholicism to skillfully repackage the Risorgimento for British audiences and play a pivotal role in its propaganda campaign. The first section examines their transnational...
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Emancipating Education: Primary Education in the New Italian State

Moore, Diana

Pages: 139 –175

[This chapter examines the primary educational institutions established by Mary Chambers, Sara Nathan, and Julia Salis Schwabe in Sardinia, Rome, and Naples respectively. The chapter shows how these women, like many others from Europe and the United States, took advantage of the perceived...
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The Personal is Political: Companionate Marriage, Republican Motherhood, and the Campaign Against State-Regulated Prostitution

Moore, Diana

Pages: 177 –211

[This chapter centers on the idea that the personal was political for Victorian feminists and shows how these British-Italian reformers made choices in their private lives that reflected their political philosophies. The first section provides greater background on nineteenth-century marriage and...
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From Scrapbooks to State Archives: Memorializing the Radical Risorgimento

Moore, Diana

Pages: 213 –243

[This final chapter reveals how these women of the left used the traditionally feminine practice of collecting and storing family letters and papers to shape the collective memory of the Risorgimento. It begins with an overview of women’s traditional activities as collectors of memory, popular...
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Conclusion: Continuing the Legacy After 1890

Moore, Diana

Pages: 245 –251

[This brief conclusion offers a look at the legacy of these women after 1890 when the increasing strength of the Italian state and emergence of mass politics brought to a close the period of revolution and instability that had provided such opportunity for individual agency. No longer could women...

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