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Author | : Janet Levarie Smarr |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838639658 |
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Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, citta, ville -- the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city. with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces?
Author | : Jennifer Guglielmo |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807898228 |
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Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of women who worked in the needle and textile trades, she explores the ways immigrant women and their American-born daughters drew on Italian traditions of protest to form new urban female networks of everyday resistance and political activism. She also shows how their commitment to revolutionary and transnational social movements diminished as they became white working-class Americans.
Author | : Laura Di Bianco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253064678 |
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Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking—while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency—brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature.
Author | : Miriam Cohen |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801480058 |
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Cohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles, work lives, and schooling of two generations of Italian-American women, paying particular attention to the importance of these women's pragmatic daily choices.
Author | : Judith Adler Hellman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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This book examines the growth of feminism in five strikingly different settings: Turin, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Verona, and Caserta. Tracing the development of the Italian women's movement from the 1960s through the 1980s, the author focuses on the ways in which the specific social and political traditions of the five cities shape the development of a new social movement.
Author | : Diane C. Vecchio |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Alien labor |
ISBN | : 0252030397 |
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Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America balances the image of inexperienced and low-skilled laborers that dominates scholarship on Italian working women. Vecchio's research on Endicott sheds light on the gendered nature of life in a "company town" governed by welfare paternalism, while her research on Milwaukee emphasizes how Italian immigrant women turned to small business enterprise when local opportunities for wage-earning were limited. This comparative method helps to move beyond reductionist theories and conventional portraits of Italian women to explore the diverse factors that prompted them to seek certain kinds of occupations to the exclusion of others.
Author | : Louise Christine Odencrantz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Italian American women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carol Bonomo Albright |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823231755 |
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With writings that span more than thirty-five years, American Woman, Italian Style is a rich collection of essays that fleshes out the realities of today's Italian American women and explores the myriad ways they continue to add to the American experience. The status of modern Italian-American women in the United States is noteworthy: their quiet and continued growth into respected positions in the professional worlds of law and medicine surpasses the success achieved in that of the general population--so too does their educational attainment and income. Contributions include Donna Gabaccia on the oral-to-written history of cookbooks, Carol Helstosky on the Tradition of Invention, an interview with Sandra Gilbert, Paul Levitt's look at Lucy Mancini as a metaphor for the modern world, William Egelman's survey of women's work patterns, and Edvige Giunta on the importance of a selfconscious understanding of memory. There are explorations of Jewish-Italian intermarriages and interpretations of entrepreneurship in Milwaukee. Readers will find challenges to common assumptions and stereotypes, departures from normal samplings, and springboards to further research. American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women offers unique insights into issues of gender and ethnicity and is a voice for the less heard and less seen side of the Italian-American experience from immigrant times to the present. Instead of seeking consensus or ideological orthodoxy, this collection brings together writers with a wide range of backgrounds, outlooks, ideas, and experiences. It is an impressive postmodern collection for interdisciplinary studies: a book and a look about being and becoming an American.
Author | : Louise Christine Odencrantz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Italian American women |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Louise C. (Louise Christine) Odencrantz |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290149440 |
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.