Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives : : Italian Workers of the World / / ed. by Donna R Gabaccia, Franca Iacovetta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Corti, Paola,; De Clementi, Andreina,; Gabaccia, Donna R.,; Guglielmo, Jennifer,; Merithew, Caroline Waldron,; Morelli, Anne,; Moya, Jose,; Pesman, Roslyn,; Principe, Angela,; Reeder, Linda,; Tirabassi, Maddalena,; Vecchio, Diane,; Ventresca, Robert,; lacovetta, Franca,
• HerausgeberIn: Gabaccia, Donna R,; Iacovetta, Franca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Gender and History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Scholars in the United States have long defined the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows'. In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia use international and internationalist perspectives, feminist labour history, women's history, and Italian migration history to provide a woman-centred, gendered analysis of Italian workers, and by so doing, challenge this stereotype.Comparing the lives of women in Italy, Belgium, the USA, Canada, Argentina, and Australia, Iacovetta and Gabaccia offer a realistic and engaging portrait of women as peasants and workers, and uncover the voice of female militants. Most importantly, by using a comparative approach to the study of women's migration over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they treat both women who stayed home during male migration, and the work and activism of those who moved. By pursuing this comparative method, they show how Italian women could become Communist militants, union organizers, or anti-fascist radical exiles in some countries while seeming to disappear into stereotypes in others. Ground-breaking and original, this erudite collection of thirteen essays will bring a fascinating new perspective to women's studies and migration history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. When Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work -- 1. When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1920 -- 2. Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market -- 3. Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women; Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy -- Part II. Female Immigrants at Work -- 4. Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth- Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France -- 5. Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen -- Part III. Fighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles -- 6. Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890-1910 -- 7. Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns -- 8. Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s -- 9. Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile -- 10. Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium -- Part IV. As We See Ourselves, As Others See Us -- 11. Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era -- 12 Italian Women and Work in Post-Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience -- Contributors -- Illustrations Credits -- Index