Fighting for masculinity: Male domestic workers, gender, and migration in Italy from the late nineteenth century to the present

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-43

  Sarti, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

domestic service; ethnicity; facial hair; gender; Italy; masculinity; migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956960486     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X10382879     Document Type: Article

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