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Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Title Living the revolution [electronic resource] : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	404 p. : ill.
Series	Gender and American culture
	Gender & American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-384) and index.
Contents	Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Women immigrants -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Women in the labor movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Italians -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Italian American women -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Working class women -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Radicalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780807833568 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0807833568 (cloth : alk. paper)