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WOMEN WRITING RESISTANCE: Teaching Italian Immigrant Women's Radical Political Testimonies
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"These women were not just ahead of their time, they were ahead of ours," a student says as we begin class discussion. "I never even thought feminism was like this back then. I mean, these women were talking about inner transformation as fundamental to revolutionary change." Sitting in a circle, in the elite women's uberai arts college in the Northeast where I teach, we settle in for our discussion on the writing of women whose lives unfolded far from these ivy-covered buildings, one hundred years ago. We have read a set of essays that were produced by working-class Italian immigrant women anarchists from the early twentieth century. Most had little formal education, few economic …
