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Author Reeder, Linda, author.

Title Widows in white : migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880-1920 / Linda Reeder.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in gender and history ; 22
Studies in gender and history ; 22.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The Women of the South -- pt. I. Rural Women and Transnational Migration -- Ch. 1. Blood, Honour, and Belonging: The World of Rural Sicilians -- Ch. 2. 'Gone to America': Migrating Men and Abandoned Women -- Ch. 3. Motherhood, Marriage, and Migration -- Ch. 4. Fulfilling the Dream: Houses, Land, and Work -- pt. II. Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities -- Ch. 5. Sicilian Women and the Italian State -- Ch. 6. Beyond Sutera: Sicilian Women Join the Nation -- Conclusion: Gender, Migration, and Globalization.
Summary "In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket.
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Subject Rural women -- Italy -- Sicily -- Social conditions.
Rural women.
Italy -- Sicily.
Social conditions.
Sicily (Italy) -- Rural conditions.
Sicily (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Reeder, Linda. Widows in white. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003 0802037313 (DLC) 2003271534 (OCoLC)50110668
ISBN 9781442683488 (electronic book)
1442683481 (electronic book)
0802037313 (bound)
0802085253 (paperback)
9780802037312
9780802085252