Widows in white migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880-1920 - Reeder, Linda (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
"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."--BOOK JACKET.