Widows in white
Subtitle: migration and the transformation of rural Italian women, Sicily, 1880-1920
By: Linda Reeder.
Series: Studies in gender and history ;; 22
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Rural women -- Italy -- Sicily -- Social conditions.; Femmes en milieu rural -- Italie -- Sicile -- Conditions sociales.; Sicily (Italy) -- Rural conditions.; Sicily (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; Sicile (Italie) -- Conditions rurales.; Sicile (Italie) -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.