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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457122803321

Titolo

American woman, Italian style [[electronic resource] ] : Italian Americana's best writings on women / / edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-4128-9

0-8232-3177-1

Edizione

[[1st ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbrightCarol Bonomo

Palamidessi MooreChristine

Disciplina

973/.0451

Soggetti

Italian American women - Social life and customs

Italian American women - Social conditions

Italian American women

Sex role - United States

Ethnicity - United States

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Education, Work, and Home Life""; ""Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women""; ""��Why, It�s Mother��""; ""Connecting Spheres""; ""Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants""; ""Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns""; ""Italian Americans, 1990�2000""; ""Italian-Jewish Intermarriage""; ""Gender Relations among Italian Americans""; ""Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life""; ""The Tradition of Invention""; ""Italian-American Cookbooks""

""Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life""""A Taste of Memories""; ""The Italian Immigrant Kitchen""; ""Literature""; ""Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco""; ""The Novels of Mari Tomasi""; ""Breaking the Silence""; ""Lucy Mancini""; ""Foodways in Italian-American Narrative""; ""In Our Ears, a Voice""; ""Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in



Rome""; ""Mary di Michele�s Elegies""; ""Interview with Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert""; ""Simona Griffo, Detective Hero""; ""Writing Life, Writing History""; ""Art, Music, and Film""

""Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor""""Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva""; ""Nancy Savoca""; ""Studies about Italian-American Women""; ""Italian-American Women""; ""Materials from Arno Press""; ""Italian Women in America""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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.