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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458983303321

Autore

Ruberto Laura E

Titolo

Gramsci, migration, and the representation of women's work in Italy and the U.S [[electronic resource] /] / Laura E. Ruberto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2007

ISBN

1-282-98593-0

9786612985935

0-7391-4433-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

331.4086/9120973

Soggetti

Italian American women - Employment

Women - Employment - Italy

Women - Italy - Social conditions

Electronic books.

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 (p. 127-138) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women Workers, Migration, and a Gramscian Perspective; Chapter 01. Italian Rice Workers and National Popular Culture; Chapter 02. Migrant Domestic Labor and the Creation of Identity; Chapter 03. Work and the Italian American Home in Cinema; Chapter 04. "All Colors, All Religions, All United": Women Workers in California's Canneries; Epilogue: After Modotti; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Examining films, literature, songs, and photographs with an emphasis on a feminist materialist interpretation, Producing Culture considers the representations of different kinds of labor historically performed by women in Italy and the U.S. in order to reassess dominant narratives about the history of Italy and of Italians in the United States.