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Introduction: the politics of sexuality in contemporary Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Isabel Crowhurst  and
Chiara Bertone
Isabel Crowhurst*
Affiliation:
Kingston University, UK and Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Chiara Bertone
Affiliation:
Kingston University, UK and Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
*
∗Corresponding author. Email: I.Crowhurst@kingston.ac.uk
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Abstract

Sex is always political. But there are historical periods in which sexuality is more sharply contested and more overtly politicized. In such periods, the domain of erotic life is, in effect, renegotiated. (Rubin 1999, 143)

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Introduction
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Modern Italy , Volume 17 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The politics of sexuality in contemporary Italy , November 2012 , pp. 413 - 418
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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