ISBN:
0802036112
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0802084621
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9780802036117
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 433 p., [12] p. of plates)
,
ill., ports
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Saint-Lazare, Quebec Gibson Library Connections 2008 Canadian electronic library. Books collection Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
Parallel Title:
Print version Women, gender and transnational lives
DDC:
305.48/851
Keywords:
Women alien labor History
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Women Employment
;
History
;
Women History
;
Women immigrants Employment
;
History
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Women immigrants Political activity
;
History
;
Italy Emigration and immigration
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History
;
Electronic books
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 references and index
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Introduction
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PART I. When men go away: women who wait and workWhen the men left Sutera: Sicilian women and mass migration 1880-1920
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Gender relations and migration strategies in the rural Italian south: land, inheritance, and the marriage market
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Bourgeois men, peasant women: rethinking domestic work and morality in Italy
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PART II. Female immigrants at workWomen were labour migrants too: tracing late-nineteenth-century female migration from Northern Italy to France
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Gender, domestic values, and Italian working women in Milwaukee: immigrant midwives and businesswomen
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PART III. Fighting back: militants, radicals, exilesItalians in Buenos Aires's anarchist movement: gender ideology and women's participation, 1890-1910
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Anarchist motherhood: toward the making of a revolutionary proletariat in Illinois coal towns
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Italian women's proletarian feminism in the New York City garment trades, 1890s-1940s
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Virgilia D'Andrea: the politics of protest and the poetry of exile
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Nestore's wife? Work, family, and militancy in Belgium
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PART IV. As we see ourselves, as others see usGlimpses of lives in Canada's shadow: insiders, outsiders, and female activism in the fascist era
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Italian women and work in post-Second World War Australia: representation and experience
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