Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives

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.'

Donna A. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Iacovetta Franca :

Franca Iacovetta is a professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto.

'This important collection draws on new materials and path-breaking ideas to transform our understanding of Italian immigrant women and to clarify their importance to the Italian diaspora worldwide ... One of the many important aspects of the collection is its attention to the multi-faceted political activism of Italian immigrant women in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Moreover, the authors are able to connect women's domesticity, wage labour, activism, ethnic identity, and relations with the state, thus illuminating the complexity and heterogeneity of their experience. [Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives] is a tour de force that should transform the study of Italian migration and illuminate new paradigms for studies of female migration.'