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.'
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2002.
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Colección: | Studies in gender and history.
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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.