Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives Italian Workers of the World Donna R Gabaccia, Franca Iacovetta
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.' ...
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University of Toronto Press
2016, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. When Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work
- 1. When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1920
- 2. Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market
- 3. Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women; Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy
- Part II. Female Immigrants at Work
- 4. Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth- Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France
- 5. Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen
- Part III. Fighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles
- 6. Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890-1910
- 7. Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns
- 8. Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s
- 9. Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile
- 10. Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium
- Part IV. As We See Ourselves, As Others See Us
- 11. Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era
- 12 Italian Women and Work in Post-Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience
- Contributors
- Illustrations Credits
- Index