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UNINA9910780556003321 |
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Titolo |
Women, gender, and transnational lives : Italian workers of the world / / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02255-5 |
9786612022555 |
1-4426-8359-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (462 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Gender and History |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Employment - Italy - History |
Women - Employment - Italy - Foreign countries |
History |
Electronic books. |
Italy Emigration and immigration Social aspects History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 / Jose Moya -- Anarchist motherhood: toward the making of a revolutionary proletariat in Illinois coal towns / Caroline Waldron |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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.' |
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