ISBN:
9781442683594
,
1442683597
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 433 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women, gender and transnational lives
DDC:
305.48851
Keywords:
Women Italy
;
Women employees Italy
;
Women immigrants Italy
;
Women immigrants Political activity
;
History
;
Femmes Histoire
;
Italie
;
Femmes Travail
;
Histoire
;
Italie
;
Immigrantes Travail
;
Histoire
;
Immigrantes Activité politique
;
Histoire
;
Travailleuses étrangères Histoire
;
Women foreign workers
;
Women employees
;
Women immigrants
;
Women
;
Women immigrants Political activity
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Auswanderung ; Italien ; Frau ; Geschichte ; 1850-1930 ; Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Italienerin ; Geschichte ; 1850-1930 ; Aufsatzsammlung
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Women
;
Women employees
;
Women foreign workers
;
Women immigrants
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Frauenarbeit
;
Migration
;
Geschichte
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
History
;
Italy Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Italie Émigration et immigration
;
Histoire
;
Italienerin
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin
;
Geschichte
;
1850-1930
;
Italien
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frau
;
Auswanderung
;
Geschichte
;
1850-1930
;
Italien
;
Italy Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Italien
;
Italienerin ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Geschichte ; 1850-1930 ; Aufsatzsammlung
;
Italien ; Frau ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte ; 1850-1930 ; Aufsatzsammlung
;
Italy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 /José Moya --Anarchist motherhood: toward the making of a revolutionary proletariat in Illinois coal towns /Caroline Waldron 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.
Abstract:
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.'
Note:
Includes bibliographical reference and index
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442683594
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