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Women, gender and transnational lives : Italian workers of the world /

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.'

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-, Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
Colección:Studies in gender and history.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Donna R. Gabaccia, Franca Iacovetta
  • PART I. When men go away: women who wait and work
  • When the men left Sutera: Sicilian women and mass migration 1880-1920 / Linda Reeder
  • Gender relations and migration strategies in the rural Italian south: land, inheritance, and the marriage market / Andreina De Clementi
  • Bourgeois men, peasant women: rethinking domestic work and morality in Italy / Maddalena Tirabassi
  • PART II. Female immigrants at work
  • Women were labour migrants too: tracing late-nineteenth-century female migration from Northern Italy to France / Paola Corti
  • Gender, domestic values, and Italian working women in Milwaukee: immigrant midwives and businesswomen / Diane Vecchio
  • PART III. Fighting back: militants, radicals, exiles
  • Italians in Buenos Aires's anarchist movement: gender ideology and women's participation, 1890-1910 / José Moya
  • Anarchist motherhood: toward the making of a revolutionary proletariat in Illinois coal towns / Caroline Waldron Merithew
  • Italian women's proletarian feminism in the New York City garment trades, 1890s-1940s / Jennifer Guglielmo
  • Virgilia D'Andrea: the politics of protest and the poetry of exile / Robert Ventresca, Franca Iacovetta
  • Nestore's wife? Work, family, and militancy in Belgium / Anne Morelli
  • PART IV. As we see ourselves, as others see us
  • Glimpses of lives in Canada's shadow: insiders, outsiders, and female activism in the fascist era / Angelo Principe
  • Italian women and work in post-Second World War Australia: representation and experience / Roslyn Pesman.