Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (Gender and American Culture) PDF
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GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE Coeditors Thadious M. Davis Mary Kelley Editorial Advisory Board Nancy Cott Linda K. Kerber Jane Sherron De Hart Annette Kolodny John D’Emilio Nell Irvin Painter Farrah Grif n Janice Radway Amy Kaplan Barbara Sicherman Emerita Board Members Cathy N. Davidson Sara Evans Wendy Martin A complete list of books published in Gender and American Culture is available at www. uncpress.unc. edu. Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill This volume was published with the assistance of the Greensboro Women’s Fund of the University of North Carolina Press. Founding Contributors: Linda Arnold Carlisle, Sally Schindel Cone, Anne Faircloth, Bonnie McElveen Hunter, Linda Bullard Jennings, Janice J. Kerley (in honor of Margaret Supplee Smith), Nancy Rouzer May, and Betty Hughes Nichols. © 2010 Jennifer Guglielmo All rights reserved Set in Minion Pro by Graphic Composition, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress C ataloging-i n-P ublication Data Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967– Living the revolution : Italian women’s resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 / Jennifer Guglielmo. p. cm. — (Gender and American culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0 -8 078-3 356-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Women immigrants—Political activity—New York (State)—New York— History. 2. Women in the labor movement—New York (State)—New York— History. 3. Italians—Political activity—New York (State)—New York—History. 4. Italian American women—Political activity—New York (State)—New York— History 5. Working class women—Political activity—New York (State)—New York— History. 6. Radicalism—New York (State)—New York—History. I. Title. HQ1439.N6G84 2010 320.53082’097471—dc22 2009039645 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 To Grace and Angelo Guglielmo, with great love and admiration A story is not just a story. Once the forces have been aroused and set into motion, they can’t simply be stopped at someone’s request. Once told, the story is bound to circulate; humanized it may have a temporary end, but its ef ects linger on and its end is never truly an end. —T rinh T. Minh-h a, “Grandma’s Story,” in Woman Native Other Contents Introduction 1 1 Women’s Cultures of Resistance in Southern Italy 9 2 L a Sartina (The Seamstress) Becomes a Transnational Labor Migrant 44 3 The Racialization of Southern Italian Women 79 4 Surviving the Shock of Arrival and Everyday Resistance 110 5 Anarchist Feminists and the Radical Subculture 139 6 The 1909–1919 Strike Wave and the Birth of Industrial Unionism 176 7 Red Scare, the Lure of Fascism, and Diasporic Resistance 199 8 Community Organizing in a Racial Hall of Mirrors 230 Conclusions 266 Notes 271 Bibliography 325 Acknowledgments 385 Index 389 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations Women of Carloforte, Island of San Pietro, Sardinia, 1913 10 Women washing clothes in Lago di Piediluco, Umbria, ca. 1890 19 Women dancing, Naples, ca. 1870–90 28 Sant’Agata (Saint Agatha), 1896 31 Girls learning to sew, Sicily, 1921 46 Italian immigrant woman at Ellis Island, ca. 1906–14 67 Mrs. Mary Rena and neighbors shelling nuts, 1911 71 Women making feathers, ca. 1907 73 Women weavers, ca. 1913 74 Italian immigrant woman carrying garment piecework, 1910 80 Sicilian girl, 1914 84 Lombroso’s “Homicidal Women,” 1897 85 Frank and Dolly Sinatra, 1945 112 Census taker at 332 East 112th Street, 1930 123 Antonia (Zullo) and Francesco Porcelli, ca. 1930 137 Roda and Esteve family, ca. 1916 140 May Day Picnic, Haledon, New Jersey, 1915 146 Guabello, Gallo, and Baronio families, Haledon, New Jersey, 1921 152 May Day, New York City, 1916 178
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