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Title American woman, Italian style : Italian Americana's best writings on women / edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore
Edition [1st ed.]
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies
Contents Education, Work, and Home Life -- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage / Elizabeth G. Messina -- "Why, It's Mother": The Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York / Lorett Treese -- Connecting Spheres: Women's Work and Women's Lives in Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward / Diane C. Vecchio -- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants / Maria Parrino -- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns: Italian-American Women in New York City / William Egelman -- Italian Americans, 1990 -- 2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data / William Egelman -- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage: The Italian-American Spouse / Michael D'Angelo -- Gender Relations among Italian Americans / Richard Gambino -- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction / Donna Gabaccia -- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History through La cucina casareccia napoletana / Carol Helstosky -- Italian-American Cookbooks: From Oral to Print Culture / Donna Gabaccia -- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction / Donna Gabaccia -- A Taste of Memories / Catherine Tripalin Murray -- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey into Identity / Cassandra Vivian -- Literature -- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco / Carole Brown Knuth -- The Novels of Mari Tomasi / Alfred F. Rosa -- Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Tina De Rosa / Lisa A. Meyer -- Lucy Mancini: The New Woman / Paul Levitt -- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative / Rose De Angelis -- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in Blue Italian and Umbertina / Mary Ann Mannino -- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum -- Mary di Michele's Elegies / Nathalie Cooke -- Interview with Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert / Christina Bevilacqua -- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of "Troublems" / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum -- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir / Edvige Giunta -- Art, Music, and Film -- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor / Carol Scarvalone Kushner -- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva / James Drake -- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation / Jacqueline Reich -- Studies about Italian-American Women -- Italian-American Women: A Review Essay / Donna Gabaccia -- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman / Maxine Seller -- Italian Women in America: Sources for Study / Betty Boyd Caroli
Summary With writings that span more than 35 years, this book is a rich collection of essays that fleshes out the realities of today's Italian American women and explores the myriad ways they continue to add to the American experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Italian American women -- Social life and customs
Italian American women -- Social conditions
Italian American women -- Biography
Italian American women -- Literary collections
Sex role -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Italian American women
Sex role
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Literary collections
Form Electronic book
Author Albright, Carol Bonomo
Palamidessi Moore, Christine
LC no. 2010039554
ISBN 9780823241286
0823241289
9780823231775
0823231771
9780823248933
0823248933
OTHER TI Italian Americana