- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index
Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Chapter:
- (p.202) Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Source:
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Author(s):
Carol Bonomo Jennngs
Christine Palamidessi Moore
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
Lucy Mancini, “thoroughly Americanized by three years of college,” achieves freedom, though she must first, in fairy-tale fashion, rid herself of the bodily defect, a pelvic malformation, that presumably issues from the genes of her Sicilian family, and that functions as a metaphor for her transit from Sonny's puttana (whore) to a Jewish doctor's wife. The exception to the vita matrimoniale italiana (marriage Italian-style) is Lucy Mancini, who not surprisingly crosses cultural borders to marry Jules Segal. Lucy Mancini's affair with and subsequent marriage to Dr. Jules Segal unites the Italians and Jews in the city of the future, Las Vegas.
Keywords: Lucy Mancini, puttana, marriage, Italians, Jews, Jules Segal, Las Vegas
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- American Woman, Italian Style
- Introduction: <i>Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore</i>
- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage
- “why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York
- Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward
- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants
- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City
- Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data
- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse
- Gender Relations among Italian Americans
- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through <i>La cucina casareccia napoletana</i>
- Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture
- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction
- A Taste of Memories
- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity
- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco
- The Novels of Mari Tomasi
- Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa
- Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman
- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative
- In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in <i>Blue Italian</i> and <i>Umbertina</i>
- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome
- Mary Di Michele's Elegies
- Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert
- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”
- Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir
- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor
- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva
- Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation
- Italian-American Women: a Review Essay
- Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman
- Italian Women in America: Sources For Study
- Contributors
- Index