Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives

Scholars in the United States have long defined the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays ''in the shadows''. In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy''s world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia use international and internationalist perspectives, feminist labour history, women''s history, and Italian migration history to provide a...