Archive for May, 2010
Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Product Description
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes. Yet until now, Italian women’s political activism and cultures of resistance have been largely invisible. In Living the Revolution, Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political cult… More >>
Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
- ISBN13: 9780822341185
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces that propel Mexican wom… More >>