Widows in white: migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880-1920
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Main Author: Reeder, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c2003
Series:Studies in gender and history 22
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Item Description: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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 322 pages)
ISBN:1442683481
9780802037312
9780802085252
9781442683488

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