Women, gender, and transnational lives : Italian workers of the world / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949- editor.

Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- editor.

Series:

Studies in gender and history.

Studies in Gender and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Italy--History.

Women.

Women--Employment--Italy--Foreign countries.

Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--History.

Italy.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.'

Contents:

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 / Jose 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-02255-5

9786612022555

1-4426-8359-7

OCLC:

923080672