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Women,Gender,and Transnational Lives: Italian Women Around the World »
Authors: Donna R. Gabaccia (Editor), Franca Iacovetta
ISBN-13: 9780802036117, ISBN-10: 0802036112
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Donna R. Gabaccia
Franca Iacovetta is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Book Synopsis
In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Pt. I | When Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work | |
| 1 | When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1920 | 45 |
| 2 | Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market | 76 |
| 3 | Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women: Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy | 76 |
| Pt. II | Female Immigrants at Work | |
| 4 | Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth-Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France | 133 |
| 5 | Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen | 160 |
| Pt. III | Fighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles | |
| 6 | Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890-1910 | 189 |
| 7 | Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns | 217 |
| 8 | Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s | 247 |
| 9 | Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile | 299 |
| 10 | Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium | 327 |
| Pt. IV | As We See Ourselves, As Others See Us | |
| 11 | Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era | 349 |
| 12 | Italian Women and Work in Post-Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience | 386 |
| Contributors | 411 | |
| Illustration Credits | 415 | |
| Index | 417 |
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