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Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Women immigrants > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History.
Women in the labor movement > New York (State) > New York > History.
Italians > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History.
Italian American women > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History.
Working class women > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History.
Radicalism > New York (State) > New York > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy
  • La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant
  • The racialization of Southern Italian women
  • Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance
  • Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture
  • The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism
  • Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance
  • Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.