Gramsci, migration, and the representation of women's work in Italy and the U.S / Laura E. Ruberto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruberto, Laura E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian American women--Employment.

Italian American women.

Women--Employment--Italy.

Women.

Women--Italy--Social conditions.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining films, literature, songs, and photographs with an emphasis on a feminist materialist interpretation, Producing Culture considers the representations of different kinds of labor historically performed by women in Italy and the U.S. in order to reassess dominant narratives about the history of Italy and of Italians in the United States.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women Workers, Migration, and a Gramscian Perspective; Chapter 01. Italian Rice Workers and National Popular Culture; Chapter 02. Migrant Domestic Labor and the Creation of Identity; Chapter 03. Work and the Italian American Home in Cinema; Chapter 04. "All Colors, All Religions, All United": Women Workers in California's Canneries; Epilogue: After Modotti; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-138) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-28341-6

1-282-98593-0

9786612985935

0-7391-4433-2

OCLC:

703138070