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American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women

Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore

Abstract

With writings that span more than thirty-five years, this book is a collection of essays that fleshes out the realities of today's Italian-American women and explores the myriad ways they continue to add to the American experience. The status of modern Italian-American women in the United States is noteworthy: their quiet and continued growth into respected positions in the professional worlds of law and medicine surpasses the success achieved in that of the general population — so too does their educational attainment and income. Contributions include Donna Gabaccia on the oral-to-written his ... More

Keywords: Italian American women, American experience, Jewish-Italian, gender, ethnicity, immigrant, success, entrepreneurship

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780823231751
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2011 DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823231751.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Carol Bonomo Albright, editor

Christine Palamidessi Moore, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

American Woman, Italian Style

Introduction: Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore

Carol Bonomo Jennngs, and Christine Palamidessi Moore

Education, Work, and Home Life

Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage

Elizabeth G. Messina 1992

“why, It's Mother”: the Italian Mothers' Clubs of New York

Lorett Treese 1990

Connecting Spheres Women's Work and Women's Lives In Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward

Diane C. Vecchio 1995

Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants

Maria Parrino 1992

Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns Italian-American Women In New York City

William Egelman 2000

Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data

William Egelman 2005

Italian-Jewish Intermarriage the Italian-American Spouse

William Egelman, William Gratzer, and Michael D'angelo 2005

Gender Relations among Italian Americans

Richard Gambino 1998

Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction

Donna Gabaccia 1998

The Tradition of Invention: Reading History Through La cucina casareccia napoletana

Carol Helstosky 1998

Italian-American Cookbooks From Oral to Print Culture

Donna Gabaccia 1998

Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction

Donna Gabaccia 1998

A Taste of Memories

Catherine Tripalin Murray 1998

The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey Into Identity

Cassandra Vivian 1998

Literature

Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco

Carole Brown Knuth 1986

The Novels of Mari Tomasi

Alfred F. Rosa 1975

Breaking the Silence: An Interview With Tina De Rosa

Lisa A. Meyer

Lucy Mancinithe: New Woman

Paul Levitt 2009

Foodways in Italian-American Narrative

Rose De Angelis 2005

In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in Blue Italian and Umbertina

Mary Ann Mannino 2002

Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome

Blossom S. Kirschenbaum 1995

Mary Di Michele's Elegies

Nathalie Cooke 1991

Interview With Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert

Christina Bevilacqua 1992

Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of “troublems”

Blossom S. Kirschenbaum 2000

Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir

Edvige Giunta 2000

Art, Music, and Film

Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor

Carol Scarvalone Kushner 1993

Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva

James Drake 1979

Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation

Jacqueline Reich 1995

Studies About Italian-American Women

Italian-American Women: a Review Essay

Donna Gabaccia 1993

Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman

Maxine Seller 1976

Italian Women in America: Sources For Study

Betty Boyd Caroli 1976

End Matter

Contributors

Index