| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 433 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in gender and history |
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Studies in gender and history.
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| 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 / José 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 |
| 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.' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference and index |
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Women -- Italy
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Women employees -- Italy
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Women immigrants -- Italy
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Women foreign workers.
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Women immigrants -- Political activity -- History
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Women -- Employment -- Italy -- History
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Women foreign workers -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Women -- Employment
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Emigration and immigration
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Women
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Women employees
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Women foreign workers
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Women immigrants
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Frauenarbeit
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Migration
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Auswanderung -- Italien -- Frau -- Geschichte -- 1850-1930 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin -- Italienerin -- Geschichte -- 1850-1930 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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| Subject |
Italy
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Italien
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Italienerin -- Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin -- Geschichte -- 1850-1930 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Italien -- Frau -- Auswanderung -- Geschichte -- 1850-1930 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-
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Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
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| LC no. |
2003430885 |
| ISBN |
9781442683594 |
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1442683597 |
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1282022555 |
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9781282022553 |
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