Table of Contents

Introduction
1: 'Who to choose'? Finding a suitable marriage partner
2: 'Forgive me, loveEL It was stronger than I am': Negotiating intimacy and sexuality
3: Where violence and love meet: Honour and Italian society
4: 'Love means jealousy': A Jealousy epidemic in post-war Italy?
5: 'The marriage outlaws': Experiences of marriage breakdown before divorce
Conclusion

About the Author

Niamh Cullen is a lecturer in modern European history at Queen's University Belfast. Her work focuses on the social and cultural history of modern Italy and particularly on the post-1945 'economic miracle' period. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Southampton and an Irish Research Council/Marie Curie co-funded fellow at University College Dublin and the University of Milan.