Title Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. Contents Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors Summary Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing the activism of two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. And she shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became whit Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Women immigrants -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Women in the labor movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Italians -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Italian American women -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Working class women -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Radicalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Fascism & Totalitarianism. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Italians -- Political activity Radicalism Women in the labor movement Working class women -- Political activity New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009039645 ISBN 9780807898222 0807898228 9781469604114 1469604116

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