Living the revolution
Subtitle: Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
By: Jennifer Guglielmo.
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780807833568
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy; title: La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant; title: The racialization of Southern Italian women; title: Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance; title: Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture; title: The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism; title: Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance; title: Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.