Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America

by Diane C. Vecchio

Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States

Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252030397
• ISBN13: 9780252030390
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years