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Italian Women in Basilicata : Staying Behind but Moving Forward During the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876-1914 by Victoria Calabrese (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10179360780X
ISBN-139781793607805
eBay Product ID (ePID)20066163788
Product Key Features
Number of Pages212 Pages
Publication NameItalian Women in Basilicata : Staying Behind but Moving Forward During the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876-1914
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectEurope / Italy, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorVictoria Calabrese
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsItalian Women in Basilicata creatively pieces together scant and scattered documentation with good results. It delivers vivid illustrations of how women's confined civil status shaped their responses to male emigration, focusing on their persistent, small efforts to protect themselves as wives, mothers, and daughters., Victoria Calabrese paints a moving and nuanced portrait of women in Italy during the peak years of emigration from the south of the country. By investigating the legal, social, and religious implications of families separated by international migration, Calabrese explains continuity and change in gender relations, family structures, and community development. This book makes a significant contribution to women's studies, migration studies, and Italian studies, with specific examples of women's stories that readers will long remember., In Italian Women in Basilicata , Victoria Calabrese has successfully recorded the neglected stories of the other side of Italian emigration, the women who remained at home navigating hardships and forging new roles as active citizens and community members while leading their own families. Through these stories, she also introduces the story of a region that, having overcome its own challenges, has acquired a new image, with tourism on the rise. With emigration still relevant, Calabrese points out that in today's Basilicata, it is common for women to emigrate first and to send money back home. This book is indeed a must read for all those interested in gender, migration, and family studies, as well as history, culture, and civic engagement. It is a well-written and thoroughly researched study that adds valuable information to the full story of the age of Italian mass emigration. Calabrese has succeeded not only in focusing on Basilicata, to which she is personally connected, but in demonstrating the complexities of emigration and its consequences not only on those who left their lands and families but also on those who remained. Despite their hard-ships, the women left behind "acted, spoke up, and had a voice" (158), and Calabrese made sure that they continue to be heard., Calabrese's work is a timely reminder of the gendered dimension of transnational migration. By focusing on rural women in Basilicata, a seemingly isolated, rural world, Calabrese shows us the ways in which male emigration transformed the intimate and public lives of the married women who remained behind. Working from a wide range of government documents, Calabrese centers on the words and experiences of rural women as they navigated the intricacies of a transnational global network. This work highlights the ways rural women invoked the law, government agencies, and social norms to forge new roles for themselves within the family and the state. -- Linda Reeder, University of Missouri Italian Women in Basilicata creatively pieces together scant and scattered documentation with good results. It delivers vivid illustrations of how women's confined civil status shaped their responses to male emigration, focusing on their persistent, small efforts to protect themselves as wives, mothers, and daughters. -- Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto Victoria Calabrese paints a moving and nuanced portrait of women in Italy during the peak years of emigration from the south of the country. By investigating the legal, social, and religious implications of families separated by international migration, Calabrese explains continuity and change in gender relations, family structures, and community development. This book makes a significant contribution to women's studies, migration studies, and Italian studies, with specific examples of women's stories that readers will long remember. -- Mark Choate, Brigham Young University In Italian Women in Basilicata, Victoria Calabrese has successfully recorded the neglected stories of the other side of Italian emigration, the women who remained at home navigating hardships and forging new roles as active citizens and community members while leading their own families. Through these stories, she also introduces the story of a region that, having overcome its own challenges, has acquired a new image, with tourism on the rise. With emigration still relevant, Calabrese points out that in today's Basilicata, it is common for women to emigrate first and to send money back home. This book is indeed a must read for all those interested in gender, migration, and family studies, as well as history, culture, and civic engagement. It is a well-written and thoroughly researched study that adds valuable information to the full story of the age of Italian mass emigration. Calabrese has succeeded not only in focusing on Basilicata, to which she is personally connected, but in demonstrating the complexities of emigration and its consequences not only on those who left their lands and families but also on those who remained. Despite their hard-ships, the women left behind "acted, spoke up, and had a voice" (158), and Calabrese made sure that they continue to be heard. -- Italian American Review, Calabrese's work is a timely reminder of the gendered dimension of transnational migration. By focusing on rural women in Basilicata, a seemingly isolated, rural world, Calabrese shows us the ways in which male emigration transformed the intimate and public lives of the married women who remained behind. Working from a wide range of government documents, Calabrese centers on the words and experiences of rural women as they navigated the intricacies of a transnational global network. This work highlights the ways rural women invoked the law, government agencies, and social norms to forge new roles for themselves within the family and the state.
Dewey Decimal306.872/3094577
Table Of ContentPreface: A Woman Left Behind Acknowledgments Introduction: Women, Emigration, and Basilicata Chapter 1: Marriage, Tradition, and Emigration Chapter 2: Motherhood and Migration Chapter 3: Women and Economic Change in an Era of Mass Migration Chapter 4: Women and the State: Forging Citizenship Chapter 5: Family, Community, and Church: Coping with Emigration Chapter 6: Deviant Women: Criminal and Dishonorable Activity Chapter 7: Returning Men and Emigrating Women Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
SynopsisThis study examines the role of southern Italian women who remained behind when their husbands emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By piecing together limited archival source material, the author argues that married women were not voiceless or powerless when their husbands were abroad, but they took on roles beyond their limited legal position. They petitioned local officials, requested passports, received remittances, and handled the family finances, all in the absence of their husbands, the legal head of the family. The study also emphasizes the connection forged between women and the new Italian state at a time when women did not have political rights. Centering on Basilicata--a "forgotten" region of the Italian south and one that has not been a major focus of scholarly investigation--this study challenges stereotypes that the Italian south was backwards, uncivilized, and lagging behind northern Italy. The author argues that large scale emigration greatly impacted the married women left behind in the villages of Basilicata, changing their social, political, and economic role., This book examines the women who remained behind in the southern Italian region of Basilicata during the age of mass migration. While thousands of married men left, their wives remained in Italy, taking on a new role and challenging stereotypes.
LC Classification NumberHQ1644.B37C35 2024
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