Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Education, Work, and Home Life
6. Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women. Childhood, Work, and Marriage 13
7. ‘‘Why, It’s Mother’’ The Italian Mothers’ Clubs of New York 32
8. Connecting Spheres. Women’s Work and Women’s Lives in Milwaukee’s Italian Third Ward 47
9. Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants 57
10. Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns. Italian-American Women in New York City 78
11. Italian Americans, 1990–2000. A Demographic Analysis of National Data 87
12. Italian-Jewish Intermarriage. The Italian-American Spouse 98
13. Gender Relations among Italian Americans 110
14. Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life. An Introduction 121
15. The Tradition of Invention. Reading History through La cucina casareccia napoletana 123
16. Italian-American Cookbooks. From Oral to Print Culture 133
17. Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life. An Introduction 142
18. A Taste of Memories 143
19. The Italian Immigrant Kitchen. A Journey into Identity 150
20. Literature
21. Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco 157
22. The Novels of Mari Tomasi 166
23. Breaking the Silence. An Interview with Tina De Rosa 177
24. Lucy Mancini. The New Woman 202
25. Foodways in Italian-American Narrative 206
26. In Our Ears, a Voice. The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in Blue Italian and Umbertina 215
27. Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome 225
28. Mary di Michele’s Elegies 232
29. Interview with Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert 240
30. Simona Griffo, Detective Hero A Series of ‘‘Troublems’’ 250
31. Writing Life, Writing History. Italian-American Women and the Memoir 260
32. Art, Music, and Film
33. Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor 269
34. Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva 284
35. Nancy Savoca. An Appreciatio 300
36. Studies about Italian-American Women
37. Italian-American Women. A Review Essay 305
38. Materials from Arno Press. The Italian-American Woman 333
39. Italian Women in America. Sources for Study 337
40. Contributors 349
41. Index 355