The Italian Catholic Divorce
The Italian Catholic Divorce

Author: Annette C. Schiro

Publisher: XinXii

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 3960282044

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This book is a collection of short stories of travel, adventure, and growing up as an Italian Catholic. The author tells stories of her great grandparents that came to America, and how it was literally murder getting out of Sicily. Coming from being poor peasants in Italy, America promised to provide the family with the opportunities to become wealthy aristocrats, even if one had to bootleg whiskey to do it. Shocked by the faith-shaking realization that nuns were actually human beings underneath all that garb, she was still hopeful that the pope would be coming to dinner after she purchased the best china available. With some Italian traditions that just wouldn’t die and too many relatives that did, Annette relates stories of their lives and deaths with wit and humor.

Debating Divorce in Italy
Debating Divorce in Italy

Author: M. Seymour

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-12-11

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 023060174X

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The popular referendum of 1974 which affirmed Italy's recently-won divorce law is widely regarded as a turning point in modern Italian history, but the long story behind that struggle has remained largely unfamiliar. Using the debates over divorce as a lens, this book is a study of the quest to modernize Italy, Italians, and Italian marriage.

Minority and Ethnic Issues in the Divorce Process
Minority and Ethnic Issues in the Divorce Process

Author: Craig A. Everett

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780866567848

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This important book provides rare insights into the unique factors involved in the divorce process for minority and ethnic populations. An understanding of this area of growing concern will enrich the clinical skills of marriage and family therapists and will inspire researchers with ideas for further study into the needs and variables of minority and ethnic populations. Practitioners will discover ways in which minority and ethnic variables affect divorce patterns, and even more importantly, the unique emotional and systemic characteristics they present that must be considered in clinical and dispute resolution strategies. Contributors address such topics as the effects of living in single parent families and the importance of family and social networks.

The Italian Way
The Italian Way

Author: Douglas Harper

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-01-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0226317269

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Outside of Italy, the country’s culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table. The Italian Way focuses on two dozen families in the city of Bologna, elegantly weaving together Harper’s outsider perspective with Faccioli’s intimate knowledge of the local customs. The authors interview and observe these families as they go shopping for ingredients, cook together, and argue over who has to wash the dishes. Throughout, the authors elucidate the guiding principle of the Italian table—a delicate balance between the structure of tradition and the joy of improvisation. With its bite-sized history of food in Italy, including the five-hundred-year-old story of the country’s cookbooks, and Harper’s mouth-watering photographs, The Italian Way is a rich repast—insightful, informative, and inviting.

The Devil and the Dolce Vita
The Devil and the Dolce Vita

Author: Roy Domenico

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0813234336

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Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.

Patriarchal Structures and Ethnicity in the Italian Community in Britain
Patriarchal Structures and Ethnicity in the Italian Community in Britain

Author: Azadeh Medaglia

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1351777637

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First published in 2001, this book retraces the chronological history of the Italian Diaspora community in Britain from its inception in the eighteenth century to the present. The author describes the immigrants’ way of life, patterns of occupation, gender relations and modes of integration in the host country. In addition, the book focuses on the role of religion, an institution which has traditionally reinforced both Italian cultural identity and unequal gender relations. Until now, most ethnic studies have been carried out on racialized minorities - those with physical differences - and they have generally failed to emphasize the gender relations within minority communities.