Living the revolution [electronic resource] : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Gender & American culture.
Main Author: Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Living the Revolution : Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Format: Electronic eBook
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.