2. Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. When Men Go Away: Women Who Wait and Work
6. 1. When the Men Left Sutera: Sicilian Women and Mass Migration, 1880-1920 45
7. 2. Gender Relations and Migration Strategies in the Rural Italian South: Land, Inheritance, and the Marriage Market 76
8. 3. Bourgeois Men, Peasant Women; Rethinking Domestic Work and Morality in Italy 106
9. Part II. Female Immigrants at Work
10. 4. Women Were Labour Migrants Too: Tracing Late-Nineteenth- Century Female Migration from Northern Italy to France 133
11. 5. Gender, Domestic Values, and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: Immigrant Midwives and Businesswomen 160
12. Part III. Fighting Back: Militants, Radicals, Exiles
13. 6. Italians in Buenos Aires's Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women's Participation, 1890-1910 189
14. 7. Anarchist Motherhood: Toward the Making of a Revolutionary Proletariat in Illinois Coal Towns 217
15. 8. Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s 247
16. 9. Virgilia D'Andrea: The Politics of Protest and the Poetry of Exile 299
17. 10. Nestore's Wife? Work, Family, and Militancy in Belgium 327
18. Part IV. As We See Ourselves, As Others See Us
19. 11. Glimpses of Lives in Canada's Shadow: Insiders, Outsiders, and Female Activism in the Fascist Era 349
20. 12 Italian Women and Work in Post-Second World War Australia: Representation and Experience 386
21. Contributors 411
22. Illustrations Credits 415
23. Index 417