Incest occurred in 30 percent of families in Italy’s most patriarchal rural regions
Evidence
There is a split, in this field, between city and country, but with no idyllic bias in favour of the country, where the most frequent and the most monstrous sexual crimes take place and where bestiality and sodomy are widespread. In the parliamentary enquiry on the South in 1911 it is stated that in Abruzzo and the Basilicata, which are the regions where there is most religious fanaticism and patriarchalism and the least influence of urban ideas (to such an extent that, according to Serpieri, in the years 1919-20 there was not even any peasant unrest in those areas) there is incest in 30 per cent of families. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1096
Categorization
- CANDY: A grimly memorable statistic — 30 percent family incest in Italy’s most pious, patriarchal region — that overturns rural-idyll assumptions.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1096
- XREF: connects to: The European patriarchal family produces about thirty percent neurotics — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 173
Broader Connections
- The European patriarchal family produces about thirty percent neurotics
#corroborates(0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 173