Women,Gender,and Transnational Lives: Italian Women Around the World
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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.'
PrefaceIntroduction3Pt. IWhen Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work1When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1920452Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market763Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women: Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy76Pt. IIFemale Immigrants at Work4Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth-Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France1335Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen160Pt. IIIFighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles6Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890-19101897Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns2178Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s2479Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile29910Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium327Pt. IVAs We See Ourselves, As Others See Us11Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era34912Italian Women and Work in Post-Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience386Contributors411Illustration Credits415Index417
