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Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

Book by Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker, Andrew J. Perrin; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Italian American Women--New York (State)--New York--History, Italian American Women--New York (State)--New York--Social Conditions, Jewish Women--New York (State)--New York--History, Jewish Women--New York (State)--New York--Social Conditions, Women Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History, Women Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Pancini . Likewise, a Jewish woman recalled: "While I worked...industry, bosses tried to buy women off with promises of higher pay, but failed. An Italian woman who had already been out on...the shirtwaist strike most women, like Italians, were unorganized; in 1910...
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Revisionary Identities: Strategies of Empowerment in the Writing of Italian/American Women

Book by Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino; Peter Lang, 2000

Subjects:

American Literature--Italian American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Italian American Women--Intellectual Life, Italian Americans In Literature, Power (Social Sciences) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

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...support. In stanza 1., Italian immigrant women and Italian/American women are represented by the...Stanza 5., connects the Italian immigrant woman to the feminist movement...the feminist notion of women as agents in their own...
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Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City, 1900-1950

Book by Miriam Cohen; Cornell University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Italian American Families--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, Italian American Women--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century, New York (N.Y.)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

Within the small shops Italian women sometimes worked in mixed groups of Italian and Jewish women but usually worked alongside other Italians. Since Italian women, like other immigrants, commonly used family and neighborhood networks to find...
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Memories of Migration: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in the Lives of Jewish and Italian Women in New York, 1870-1924

Book by Kathie Friedman-Kasaba; State University of New York Press, 1996

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Italian American Women--New York (State)--New York--History, Jewish Women--New York (State)--New York--History, New York (N.Y.)--Emigration And Immigration--History, Women Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...numbers of immigrating Italians, male or female, given...we were informed that Italian migration flows were...participation of Italian women in migration and resettlement...migrating women, and Italian immigrant women in particular, has...on Italian immigrant women, but attempts to go...Although no single woman can represent the diverse...
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Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers

Book by Mary Jo Bona; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

Subjects:

American Literature--Italian American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Italian Influences, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Italian American Women--Intellectual Life, Italian Americans In Literature, Italy--In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...connection to the northern Italian artists erudition as much...grandparents. Communities where Italians settled in America become...literary history. In this way, Italian American writers are also...Because of these ideals, Italian women experienced a loosening of...

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Journal Articles on: italian women

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Alba Amoia. No Mothers We!: Italian Women Writers and Their Revolt against Maternity

Journal article by Bernadette Luciano; Italian Culture, Vol. 20, 2002

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Books--Book reviews, No Mothers We!: Italian Women Writers and Their Revolt Against Maternity (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of a number of contemporary Italian women writers: the almost...model is without a doubt a woman who sees creativity as more appealing than procreation, a woman who seems to say that maternity...resources existing in English on Italian women writers. This book is a useful...
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Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World

Journal article by Samuel L. Baily; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the experiences of Italians in the United States...variations among men and women in Italy as workers...on the minority of Italian women who migrated...in the sections on Italian women as militants and on...compared the passivity of Italian women in the United...historiography attributed the Italians behavior to their rural...
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Histories of Madness: The Abject Perspective of Italian Women in Australia

Journal article by Francesco Ricatti; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 54, 2008

Subjects:

Immigrants--Health aspects, Immigrants--Psychological aspects, Italians--Health aspects, Italians--Psychological aspects, Psychiatry--Analysis, Women--Health aspects, Women--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, History, Entire Library

...crazy"). Italian migrants, particularly women, were under the...Australians and Italians, particularly compaesani...of racism, the Italian gaze found a sonorous...she and many other Italian migrant women attempted with their...
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Hear Me Speak: Italian and Portuguese Women Facing Fisheries Management [In New England

Journal article by Madeleine Hall-Arber; Vol. 38, 1996

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Fish, Fisheries, Fishing industry, Italian Americans, Management, Portuguese Americans, Social activism, Supply, United States, Women

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...la Serieta) for Italians is for a woman to be the core of...reality there were women who were active...conversation, the woman had opened her own...be that the other women who have opened...to Portugal. The Italian women interviewed do not...the U.S. One woman spoke of the pain...
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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America

Journal article by Valerie Yow; The Oral History Review, Vol. 34, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...revealed what some of these women-owned businesses required. For boarders, the woman provided three meals...group among professional women. They were not active...presence of the familys women, and the experience of a midwife who spoke Italian were a great comfort to a woman in labor and delivery...

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Magazine Articles on: italian women

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Italian Women Advance into the 21st Century

Magazine article by Martin Gani; World and I, Vol. 26, February 2011

Subjects:

European Union--Social policy, Labor force--Demographic aspects, Labor supply--Demographic aspects, Working women--Statistics

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...the United Kingdom women began voting in...participation in Italian politics has been...became the first woman to preside over...become the first woman physician in united Italy in 1896, Italian women have been making...European average. But Italian women are entrepreneurs...4% of working women are self-employed...the first time, a woman is leading the powerful...
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Italian Women Mobilize for Choice

Magazine article by Megan Williams; Herizons, Vol. 22, Summer 2008

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Abortion, Campaigns, Public policy, Rome Italy, Womens rights movement

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...marched in protest in major Italian cities-the first such...strong turnout of men and women, few who hit the streets...participation of young women in a country in the grip...most dramatic choices a woman can make: to renounce...Edda BiIIi, the Italian president of the International Federation of Women and a veteran feminist...
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One Woman and Her Dog: Kelly Reichardt's Latest Latest Film Revives Italian Neo-Realism in America's West

Magazine article by Ryan Gilbey; New Statesman, Vol. 138, March 9, 2009

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Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Wendy and Lucy (Motion picture)--Movie reviews

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One Woman and Her Dog: Kelly Reichardts Latest Latest Film Revives Italian Neo-Realism in Americas West...haunted by Beckett and Pinter. Woman and dog stop in a nondescript...those are the ingredients of Italian neo-realism or my name is...
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Elisabetta Sirani: Beginning a New Role for Women in Art

Magazine article by Kandace Steadman; School Arts, Vol. 95, September 1995

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Painting, Italian--Study and teaching, Sirani, Elisabetta--Works, Women painters--Biography

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...tenets praised the merits of an educated woman and advocated basic instruction for women in music, reading and needle arts...anatomy and the nude were unacceptable for women who were expected to be modest and chaste. In order for a woman to have the opportunity to learn to paint...teach her. One economic advantage for women who learned the craft of painting...
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Brits Should Be More like Italians

Magazine article by Carla Powell; New Statesman, Vol. 128, June 7, 1999

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British--Attitudes, Italians--Attitudes

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...job crumbs. Another Italian, Sonia Gandhi, may...heel of the boot, Italians have turned life into...and play, man and woman, simplicity and refinement...Italians. In the office, Italians openly acknowledge...sexual harassment", women (and men) take a...Equally important to the Italian way of life is the...holidays in the EU, Italians are fierce in their...

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Newspaper Articles on: italian women

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Italian Women Protest over Berlusconi Sex Scandal

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 13, 2011

Subjects:

Berlusconi, Silvio, Prostitution--Demonstrations and protests, Scandals--Demonstrations and protests, Women--Demonstrations and protests

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Italian Women Protest over Berlusconi...promoted a culture in which women see selling their good looks...only present this model of women," said Lorella Zanardo...a book about the image of women in the media."The image of a strong and emancipated woman struggles to emerge here even...
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Italian Women of Easel Virtue; Painting as Way to Status, Cash

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 24, 2007

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Fontana, Lavinia--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Italian Women of Easel Virtue; Painting...among "the first professional women artists in modern Italy" and...painted dozens of portraits. Women even earned cash for their...of Italys art that includes women. Vasari admired Anguissolas...piano. Gentileschis enormous "Woman Playing a Lute (Saint Cecilia...
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UK Hostage Hopes Rise as Kidnappers Free Italian Women

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 29, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Hostage Hopes Rise as Kidnappers Free Italian Women. Byline: DAVID WILLIAMS A SPATE...Kenneth Bigley last night. Two female Italian aid workers held in Iraq were freed...much until it had been verified. Italian hostages Simona Pari and Simona...
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Frock Star GOES GLOBAL; BLOGGAFIGURA; from How to Wear a Pair of Boyfriend Jeans to the Perfect Way to Paint a Pneumatic Pout on Your Lips, Blogger Anna Saccone's 'How-To' Videos Have Turned Her into a YouTube Sensation. the Irish Girl with the Italian Name Tells Georgina Heffernan How She Went from College Drop-Out to a Woman with a Mission to Help Teenage Girls Photographs ADRIAN HEFFERNAN

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 10, 2010

Subjects:

Jeans (Clothing), Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Irish Girl with the Italian Name Tells Georgina Heffernan...College Drop-Out to a Woman with a Mission to Help...Anna wants young . women in particular to learn...proved a hit among women who wanted to emulate...University when he met Galway woman Margaret and fell in...generation of media-savvy women who are using sites such...
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Maybe It Was the Uniform, Maybe His Italian Looks but Women Fell for Him Instantly - CHEF WHO WORKED ON THE CONCORDIA YESTERDAY; INVESTIGATION TRUTH ABOUT CAPTAIN COWARD He Treated Ship like His Own Yacht Crew Claim He Wined & Dined Pretty Women Most Nights Chaplain Says Skipper Cried like Baby after Escaping Liner

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 21, 2012

Subjects:

Schettino, Francesco

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...It Was the Uniform, Maybe His Italian Looks but Women Fell for Him Instantly - CHEF...the uniform, maybe it was his Italian looks, but whatever it was women...the finest seafood, meat and Italian red wine. He had been dining...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: italian women

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Gascoigne, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ariostos I suppositi, was the first English prose comedy, while his Jocasta, translated from an Italian version of Euripides Phoenician Women, was the first Greek tragedy in English to be staged and one of the earliest English tragedies in...
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Pirandello, Luigi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PIRANDELLO, LUIGI lwe je perandel lo, 1867 1936, Italian author, b. Sicily. One of the great figures...Sicilian folklore. In 1897 he became professor of Italian literature at the Normal College for Women in Rome. Before achieving fame Pirandello...
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Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...beyond impressionism. His ecstatic sensuality, particularly in his opulent, generalized images of women, and his admiration of the Italian masters removed him from the primary impressionist concern: to imitate the effects of natural light...
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Belladonna

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and fleshy roots act to dilate the pupils of the eye and were once used cosmetically by women to achieve this effect. (The name belladonna is from the Italian meaning "beautiful lady.") The plant extract contains the alkaloids atropine , scopolamine...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the commedia dellarte of the Italian Renaissance, but this conjecture...Seneca as the models. The Italians strictly applied their interpretation...responsible for the failure of Italian Renaissance drama. Some liveliness...tragedies, which emphasize women characters and psychological...play could be produced. The Italian Carlo Goldoni , who wrote...

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