Immigrant Women And Feminism In Italy

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Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy

Author : Wendy Pojmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351928570
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy written by Wendy Pojmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to established European feminist movements. In this book the author assesses the significance of female immigration to Italy and its impact on Italian feminism by analyzing the way in which immigrant and Italian women have constructed their relationships over the past 30 years. The book provides comprehensive overviews of the Italian women's movement and the history of immigration to Italy before examining the formation of immigrant women's groups, the treatment of immigrant women by Italian women's associations, and the forging of new relationships in multicultural women's organizations. Broader comparisons on European migration are made to contextualize immigration to Italy and Southern Europe more generally. By drawing from a variety of research materials such as structured interviews, participant observation and empirical data, the book contributes to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender, migration and contemporary Italian history. The book is of interest for scholars and postgraduates in the fields of women and gender studies, migration studies and contemporary European history.

Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

Author : Jacqueline Andall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934481
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Migration and Domestic Service written by Jacqueline Andall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and political organization of this sector. Unlike much published work in Italian, this book adopts an integrated form of analysis where gender, ethnicity and class are seen to be interconnected constructs. The book also situates Black women within the framework of the national constituency of gender. This approach challenges the ideology surrounding the Italian family and demonstrates that while live-in domestic work created specific forms of social marginality for Black women, it paradoxically allowed Italian women to express their new social identities within and outside the family. The book concludes that Italian women have largely failed in their attempts to transform the division of labour within the home and that the decision to employ other (migrant) women to fulfill household tasks is a trend which sits uneasily within the framework of an inclusive feminist project for women.

An Alliance of Women

Author : Heather Merrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Alliance of Women written by Heather Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study takes place over a decade, between 1990 and 2001, when in Italy international migration became a major theme in national politics and a topic of heated discussion all over the country. Along with Turinese Italians, the primary subjects of this study are migrants from various parts of Africa - especially Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Morocco, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Ivory Coast, and other parts of the continent - as well as Latin America and the Philippines. These migrants arrive from the specific historical context of decolonization, born into a political climate of newly independent states that recently underwent a search for 'authentic' national identity." --introd.

Gender and Migration in Italy

Author : Elisa Olivito
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134803060
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Migration in Italy written by Elisa Olivito and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent migratory flows to Europe have brought about considerable changes in many countries. Italy in particular offers a unique point of view, since it is possible to observe not only the way migration has changed specific features of the country, but also how it is intertwined with gender relations. Considering both the type of migration that has affected Italy and the consequent measures adopted by the Government, a variety of distinctive elements may be seen. By providing a broad and more complete picture of the Italian perspective on gender and migration, this book makes a valuable contribution to the wider debate. The contributions consider the problematic linkage between gender and migration, as well as analyse particular aspects including Italian colonial past, domestic work, self-determination, access to social services, second-generation migrant women, family law, multiculturalism and religious symbols. Taking an empirical and theoretical approach, the volume underlines both the multifaceted problems affecting migrant women in Italy and the way in which questions raised in other countries are introduced and redefined by Italian scholarship. The book presents a valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of migration and gender studies.

Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S.

Author : Laura E. Ruberto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739144329
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. written by Laura E. Ruberto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers cultural representations of four different types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic servants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century (including contemporary immigrants from non-western countries); cinematic representations of unwaged household work among Italian American women; and photographs of female immigrant cannery labor in California. These categories of labor suggest the diverse ways in which migrant women workers take part in the development of what Antonio Gramsci calls national popular culture, even as they are excluded from dominant cultural narratives. The project looks at Italian immigration to the U.S., contemporary immigration to Italy, and internal migration within Italy, the emphasis being on what representations of migrant women workers can tell us about cultural and political change. In addition to the idea of national popular culture, Gramsci's discussion of the social role of subalterns and organic intellectuals, the politics of folklore (or 'common sense') and everyday culture, and the necessity of alliance-formations among different social groups all inform the textual analyses. An introduction, which includes a reconsideration of Gramsci's theories in light of feminist theory, argues that the lives of subaltern classes (such as migrant women) are inherently connected to struggles for hegemony. A brief epilogue, on a lesser-known essay by photographer Tina Modotti, closes the discussion.

The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America

Author : American Italian Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America written by American Italian Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminism and Migration

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400728301
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Migration written by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in migration, contesting identities and agency, resistance and social justice, and religion for change, well-known and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of how social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape new modalities and perspectives among women upon migration. It highlights the centrality of the various meanings and interpretations of feminism(s) in the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and the United States. The well-researched chapters explore the ways in which feminism and migration across cultures relate to women’s experiences in host societies --- as women, wives, mothers, exiles, nuns, and workers---and the avenues of interactions for change. Cross-cultural engagements point to the convergence and even disjunctures between (im)migrant and non-immigrant women that remain unrecognized in contemporary mainstream discourses on migration and feminism.

In the Name of Women's Rights

Author : Sara R. Farris
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372924
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book In the Name of Women's Rights written by Sara R. Farris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.

Women, Gender and Transnational Lives

Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802084620
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and Transnational Lives written by Donna R. Gabaccia and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'

Living the Revolution

Author : Jennifer Guglielmo
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833568
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Living the Revolution written by Jennifer Guglielmo and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Yet until now, Italian women's political activism

Italian Feminist Theory and Practice

Author : Graziella Parati
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639597
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Feminist Theory and Practice by : Graziella Parati

Download or read book Italian Feminist Theory and Practice written by Graziella Parati and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There follow essays by Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Lucia Re, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, Lea Melandri, and Teresa de Lauretis, in which the authors explore the concept of sexual difference, female authority, relational identity, gendered roles, and homosexual desire in its relation to heterosexual normativity. The volume brings Italian feminist theory squarely into the arena of the most important contemporary feminist debates, revealing both its connections to and disjunctions from more dominant French and North American theories and practices."--Cover.

Women of Courage

Author : Rose Laub Coser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030235
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Women of Courage written by Rose Laub Coser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country. Based on a major new study that includes in-depth interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New York City area in the early 1900s, this volume explores family and work lives led by these women and the relative importance of cultural factors to the two groups' adjustment to American life. The interviews trace the process of adapting to life in the U.S., paying special attention to the specific experiences of women immigrants and the challenges they faced in surmounting gender and cultural barriers both within their families and in their new communities. This innovative, interdisciplinary study uses feminist approaches to explore immigrant women's lives from childhood to old age. The result is a nuanced view of the similarities and differences between the two groups, whose distinct family structures and cultural backgrounds led to different responses to the same pressures and difficulties.

Women and Immigration Law

Author : Thomas Spijkerboer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135308373
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Women and Immigration Law written by Thomas Spijkerboer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current political context, immigration law is being addressed primarily as a security issue. Gender is addressed as an issue from the State's perspective, leading to restrictive policies. This book analyzes and evaluates current devlopments in immigration law in Europe from the perspective of the women involved.

Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968

Author : Wendy Pojmann
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823245608
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 written by Wendy Pojmann and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of the two largest autonomous women's associations in Italy during the early Cold War-the UDI and the CIF-and how they developed an active Italian and global agenda for the advancement of women's rights.

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Author : Diane C. Vecchio
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252030397
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women written by Diane C. Vecchio and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America balances the image of inexperienced and low-skilled laborers that dominates scholarship on Italian working women. Vecchio's research on Endicott sheds light on the gendered nature of life in a "company town" governed by welfare paternalism, while her research on Milwaukee emphasizes how Italian immigrant women turned to small business enterprise when local opportunities for wage-earning were limited. This comparative method helps to move beyond reductionist theories and conventional portraits of Italian women to explore the diverse factors that prompted them to seek certain kinds of occupations to the exclusion of others.

Feminine Feminists

Author : Giovanna Miceli Jeffries
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452901406
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Feminine Feminists written by Giovanna Miceli Jeffries and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Looking Through My Mother's Eyes

Author : Giovanna Del Negro
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Through My Mother's Eyes written by Giovanna Del Negro and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the undervalued realm of women's talk, this book explores the ways Italian immigrant women from Montreal cleverly use classic folk genres to stretch the boundaries of their culture. Through songs, lullabies, bawdy riddles and trickster tales, these women subvert, redefine and alter what it means to be Italian and female in North America. More than just a study of Italian Canadians, this essay delves into the broader themes of gender, immigration and ethnicity that speak compellingly to both scholarly and nonscholarly audiences alike.