Morris, P. , Willson, P., Barocci, S., Garroni, M. S., Giorgio, A. and Ricatti, F. (2015) Mothers and mammismo in the Italian diaspora. Altreitalie, 50, pp. 143-163.
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Abstract
The short pieces presented here all originate in a workshop entitled The Stereotype Abroad: Mammismo in the Italian Diaspora held in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) in May 2014. The workshop formed part of a wider interdisciplinary project – La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype – funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to investigate the role and representations of Italian mothers, and, in particular, the stereotype of mammismo (the strong Italian mother who overindulges her sons). Whilst the three other workshops in the series (held in Dundee, Glasgow and Rome) focused on mothers in Italy itself (both in the past and in the present), the Edinburgh meeting looked beyond Italy to the experience of motherhood, and discourse about it, in migrant communities. After an introduction by the workshop organisers (Penelope Morris and Perry Willson), this forum includes two contributions on migrant motherhood in the US (by Maria Susanna Garroni and Silvia Barocci), one on New Zealand (Adalgisa Giorgio) and one on Australia (Francesco Ricatti).
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