Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945Italians 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 |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Womens Cultures of Resistance in Southern Italy | 9 |
2 La Sartina The Seamstress Becomes a Transnational Labor Migrant | 44 |
3 The Racialization of Southern Italian Women | 79 |
4 Surviving the Shock of Arrival and Everyday Resistance | 110 |
5 Anarchist Feminists and the Radical Subculture | 139 |
6 The 19091919 Strike Wave and the Birth of Industrial Unionism | 176 |
7 Red Scare the Lure of Fascism and Diasporic Resistance | 199 |
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