| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 433 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in gender and history
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Studies in gender and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Italy.
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Women. |
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Italy. |
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Women employees -- Italy.
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Women employees. |
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Women immigrants -- Italy.
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Women immigrants. |
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Women foreign workers.
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Women foreign workers. |
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Women immigrants -- Political activity -- History.
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Political participation. |
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History. |
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Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Emigration and immigration. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-
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Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women, gender and transnational lives. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 9780802036117 (DLC) 2003430885 (OCoLC)49741205 |
| ISBN |
9781442683594 (electronic book) |
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1442683597 (electronic book) |
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1282022555 |
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9781282022553 |
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0802036112 (bound) |
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0802084621 (paperback) |
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9780802036117 |
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9780802084620 |
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