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Gender and organized crime in Italy : women's agency in Italian mafias / Ombretta Ingrascì.
Van Pelt Library HV6452.5 .I54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingrascì, Ombretta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and the mafia--Italy.
- Women and the mafia.
- Organized crime--Italy.
- Organized crime.
- Female offenders.
- Italy.
- Female offenders--Italy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Cosa Nostra and the 'Ndrangheta
- Violence, power and business
- Organizational structures and rituals
- 2. Women in Italian Society
- The labour market
- Social customs and women's rights
- 3. Mafia Control Over Women
- The code of honour
- Female oppression
- Honour killings
- Blood alliances through marriages
- 4. Conformist Agency: Performing Soft Power
- Education
- Vendetta
- 5. Compliant Agency: From Margins to Delegated Power
- The drug trade
- Economic crimes
- From Hermes tasks to leadership positions
- Female agency meets mafia organizational needs
- 6. Transformative Agency: Searching for Autonomous Paths
- The strength of vulnerability
- Speaking out
- Following their own children
- The ethical impact.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781350150782
- 1350150789
- OCLC:
- 1255871949
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