Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity

203 Pages·1995·2.785 MB·English

by  David G Horn

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Social Bodies
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Social Bodies
SCIENCE, REPRODUCTION, AND
ITALIAN MODERNITY
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AVID ORN
D G. H
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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Copyright(cid:211) 1995byPrincetonUniversityPress
PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet,
Princeton,NewJersey08540
IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,
Chichester,WestSussex
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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Horn,DavidG.,1958–
Socialbodies:science,reproduction,andItalianmodernity/
DavidG.Horn.
p. cm.—(Princetonstudiesinculture/power/history)
Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. )andindex.
1.Body,Human—Socialaspects—Italy. 2.Body,Human—Italy—
Symbolicaspects. 3.Fertility,Human—Governmentpolicy—Italy.
4.Fascismandculture—Italy. 5.Fascismandwomen—Italy.
6.Humanreproductivetechnology—Italy—History—20thcentury.
7.Italy—Politicsandgovernment—1914–1945. I.Title.
II.Series.
GN298.H67 1994
eISBN 1-4008-0381-0
304.6¢32—dc20 94-19052
ThisbookhasbeencomposedinPalatino
Coverillustration:AfteraposterbyMarcelloDudovich
commemoratingMothers’andInfants’Day,commissionedby
theOperaNazionaleMaternità,1937
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Contents
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Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
HAPTER
C I
Technologies of Reproduction 3
HAPTER
C II
Social Bodies 18
HAPTER
C III
The Power of Numbers 46
HAPTER
C IV
Governing Reproduction 66
HAPTER
C V
The Sterile City 95
HAPTER
C VI
Beyond Public and Private 123
Notes 129
References Cited 159
Index 183
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Acknowledgments
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T
HE IDEA
for a book on social technologies of reproduction in
interwar Italy first took shape in a seminar on arts of govern-
ment given by Michel Foucault at Berkeley in 1983. Since then
my work has taken me in several directions, many of them un-
expected, and I have benefited from the generosity and critical
insights of others along the way. Paul Rabinow, Susanna Bar-
rows, Stanley Brandes, and Richard A. Webster supervised my
dissertation and afforded me the space to work between disci-
plines. Jacqueline Urla, Stephen Kotkin, and Keith Gandal
helped me early on to clarify and focus my readings of social
technologies.
A first trip to Rome and Milan in the summer of 1983 was
funded by a Pre-Dissertation Fellowship from the Council for
European Studies. My doctoral research, from August 1984 to
August 1985, was supported by a grant under the Fulbright-
Hays Act and by an International Doctoral Research Fellowship
from the Social Science Research Council and the American
Council of Learned Societies. Two further visits to Italy were
made possible by the Istituto Lombardo per la Storia del
Movimento di Liberazione in Italia.
While in Italy, I received graciousassistancefrom the staffsof
the Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome; the Archivio Centrale dello
Stato, especially Marina Giannetto; the Archivio di Stato di Mi-
lano; the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli; the Istituto Anto-
nio Gramsci, especially Marcello Forti; the Fondazione Lelio
Basso; and the Istituto Milanese per la Storia della Resistenza e
del Movimento Operaio.
Several people provided valuable advice on archives, includ-
ing Victoria de Grazia, Renzo De Felice, Alberto Aquarone,
Piero Melograni, Luisa Passerini, Simona Colarizi, Emilio Gen-
tile, and Timothy Mason. My research in Milan was especially
facilitated by Giorgio Rumi, Giulio Sapelli, Ada Marchetti,
Ivano Granata, Luisa Dodi Osnaghi, Graziella Tonon, Duccio
Bigazzi, Luigi Bruti Liberati, Edoardo Bressan, Giuliana Cis-
laghi, and Gianfranco Petrillo.
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