Title: Widows in white : migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880-1930 /
Authors: Reeder, Linda
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Rural women Italy Sicily Social conditions.; Sicily (Italy) Rural conditions.; Sicily (Italy) Emigration and immigration History.
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
Contents: 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.