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.'
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.48/851
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-it---
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- 0802036112 9781442683594
- LCCN
- DG453
- LCCN Item number
- W65 2002eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 433 p., [12] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600305 (OCoLC)752524881 (CaOOCEL)418301
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 20
- Part I: When Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work 60
- 1 When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880–1920 62
- 2 Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market 93
- 3 Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women: Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy 123
- Part II: Female Immigrants at Work 148
- 4 Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth-Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France 150
- 5 Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen 177
- Part III: Fighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles 204
- 6 Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890–1910 206
- 7 Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns 246
- 8 Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s–1940s 276
- 9 Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile 328
- 10 Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium 356
- Part IV: As We See Ourselves, As Others See Us 376
- 11 Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era 378
- 12 Italian Women and Work in Post–Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience 415
- Contributors 440
- Illustration Credits 444
- Index 446
- A 446
- B 447
- C 448
- D 449
- E 450
- F 450
- G 452
- H 452
- I 453
- J 454
- K 454
- L 454
- M 454
- N 456
- O 457
- P 457
- Q 458
- R 458
- S 459
- T 460
- U 461
- V 461
- W 462
- Y 462
- Z 462
- Illustrations 234
