Franca Iacovetta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 516115 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Franca Iacovetta |
| NOMBRES | Franca |
| APELLIDO | Iacovetta |
| FIRMA | IACOVETTA F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8556-2595 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Working-class Girl, Feminist Historian, Collective Solidarities
By turns intimate, scholarly, and political, this reflection of a working-class historian (by birth as well as choice) and feminist scholar of women, gender, and migration highlights the life experiences, intellectual awakenings, and contemporary historical developments that have informed her evolving scholarship. While acknowledging individual achievement, the emphasis is on how collaboration with a life partner/historian, colleagues, students, …
Ramsay Cook
Ramsay Cook (1931–2016) was a respected scholar and a much-loved friend whose scholarship and graduate supervision helped a new generation of historians rewrite the history of Canada. To mark his life and career, the Canadian Historical Association hosted a round table at its 2017 annual meeting which provided the basis for the short essays in this “Life in History” section dedicated to Cook. Donald Wright uses Barker Fairley’s portrait of a youn…
Springsteen’s “Working on a Dream” and Remembering Thirty Years of Activist Collaborations in Canadian Labour and Social History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Emotions, Marital Conflict and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter
Beyond Women's Words
For women in the Western world, the quest for the autonomous self is closely bound up with the advent of feminism of the so-called second wave.1 The notion of the essentialist self, contained within the biological/reproductive body of woman, has been seen as particularly debilitating to a woman’s ability to create a unique, differentiated personhood or subjectivity that draws on her authentic experience. Women’s liberation from this framework has…
Women Pluralists Negotiating Immigrant Children’s Health in an Era of Mass Migration (the 1960s)
The article explores immigrant children’s health in Toronto, Canada, during mass migration by analysing a 1960s women-led project involving southern Europeans launched by the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, the city’s leading immigrant agency and part of a long-standing North American pluralist movement. Focused on the immigrant female fieldworkers tasked with convincing parents known for their ‘reticence’ in dealing with ‘outsid…
In the case of a woman’ or ‘the headache’
In addition to making Canadian nationality independent of British subjecthood, the 1946 Canadian Citizenship Act made women’s nationality independent of marriage, but did not repatriate women who married aliens before 1 January 1947, when the act became law. This article examines the lobby to repatriate the women, most of them married to European allied soldiers and living in Canada or Europe, and wider contexts involved. Scrutinizing the citizen…
Donna Gabaccia
Research Article| October 01 2017 Donna Gabaccia: Global Scholar and Feminist Mentor Par Excellence Franca Iacovetta Franca Iacovetta A historian of gender and migration, Franca Iacovetta is Professor of History at University of Toronto, co-editor of Studies in Gender and History at University of Toronto Press, and past president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Iacovetta’s recent publications include “Borders, Memories, Emotions:…
On the Case
Sisters or Strangers?
‘Bodies Across Borders. Oral And Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond’ (Babe)
In this final contribution to this theme issue on Luisa Passerini's important scholarship, the guest editors and Passerini discuss her current EU Research Council-funded collaborative project, BABE, which is meant to bring together oral and visual forms of memory that reformulate the concept of Europe (and Fortress Europe) in more inclusive ways. Its distinctive features are discussed, including the collection and analysis of drawings and other v…
Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory
A substantive historiographical as well as introductory essay to this issue in honour of Passerini's important scholarship, the article highlights such themes as subjectivity and intersubjectivity; transformations in oral history and memory studies prompted by attention to such issues as the role of myth, collaboration, autobiography, and the imaginary. It documents Passerini's early reception among feminist and labour historians; the collaborati…
Immigrant Gifts, Canadian Treasures, and Spectacles of Pluralism
IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE Canadian appreciation for the cultural contributions, or gifts, that immigrants offered their adopted country and to promote a pluralist nation through a public display of immigrant talents and ethnic customs, the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto mounted many intercultural events and multiethnic spectacles. There were carnivals where one could sample foods from different lands and European fairs selling Polish…
Gatekeepers
Reviewed by: Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada Marilyn Barber, Royden Loewen, Elise Chenier, Magda Fahrni, and Franca Iacovetta Franca Iacovetta — Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006 (winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2008). Marilyn Barber, Carleton University During the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Historical A…
Making Aboriginal People ‘Immigrants Too’
Canadian citizenship is a young official category of belonging, and the relationship of Aboriginal people to that category remains contested ground: scholars debate the legal status of First Nations people within the Canadian state while other academics and First Nations leaders note that these nations never ceded their sovereignty to a foreign colonial state. While such debates have deep historic roots, more recent post-1945 government policies …
Continuities and Changes”
As many women's historians well know, collaborative projects that bring together a diversity of voices and research expertise have deeply enriched feminist scholarship and helped to democratize intellectual work in the academy. So what better way to report on "Continuities and Changes: Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women"--a three-day, 204-session feminist history conference that left many folks feeling enlightened, exhilarate…
Gendering Labor History
Book Review| May 01 2008 Gendering Labor History Gendering Labor History Alice Kessler-Harris Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007 352 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Franca Iacovetta Franca Iacovetta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (2): 132–135. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-086 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Franca Iacovetta; Gendering Labor…
Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond
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Women, Gender and Transnational Lives
Review(s) of: Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002. pp. xvi + 433. US $70.00 cloth. Review(s) of: Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialised Women in Canadian History by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004. pp. xi + 418. US $29.95 paper
Laboring Across National Borders
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives
Brothers and Sisters
Forum
Gossip, Contest, and Power in the Making of Suburban Bad Girls
Drawing on a sample of 120 case files created on minor girls charged with juvenile delinquency in the York County Family Court (which processed suburban cases), the article considers the various forces that converged in the making of Toronto’s postwar suburban ‘bad’ girls. It argues that the process of identifying and treating ‘problem’ girls, though allegedly based on neutral, scientific casework procedures, could be messy, imprecise, and prejud…
Gender Conflicts
Contents Contributors / Introduction 1 'When the Mother of the Race Is Free': Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism Mariana Valverde 2 'Maidenly Girls' or 'Designing Women'? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario Karen Dubinsky 3 The 'Hallelujah Lasses': Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 Lynne Marks 4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left Jan…
Manly Militants, Cohesive Communities, and Defiant Domestics
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Immigration and Labour
No persuasive account of labour in Australia and Canada can ignore the impact that immigration has wrought on the composition of the working class and preoccupations of workers, unions, and the varied political parties they have sponsored. Highlighting both similarities and differences between countries, the paper explores the paradoxical relationship that immigration has had with the labour movements of Australia and Canada. Although immigrants …
Laboring Across National Borders
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
Women, Work, and Protest in the Italian Diaspora
How DO WE THEORIZE global migration, family economies, and labour activism from a women-centred perspective? How do feminist and gendered frameworks challenge histories of diasporas, nationalisms, and the international proletariat?. We aim to explore these questions by focusing on the roughly 27 million people who in the 19th and 20th centuries left the geographical expression called Italy. Our work brings together colleagues from four continents…
Italian Radicals in Canada
FOLLOWING THE FASCIST seizure of power in Italy in October 1922, thousands of Italians hostile to the new regime left their country of origin to escape political persecution and to wage their anti-Fascist campaigns from the relative safety of democracies in Western Europe and the Americas. Anarchists, socialists, and communists left Italy with the intention of continuing in foreign countries their struggle against the state, capitalism, and, of c…
Immigrant Gifts, Canadian Treasures, and Spectacles of Pluralism
IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE Canadian appreciation for the cultural contributions, or gifts, that immigrants offered their adopted country and to promote a pluralist nation through a public display of immigrant talents and ethnic customs, the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto mounted many intercultural events and multiethnic spectacles. There were carnivals where one could sample foods from different lands and European fairs selling Polish…
The Immigrant World of Ybor City
Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910
The Immigrant World of Ybor City
Italians in a Multicultural Canada
Evaluates the effect of the official Canadian policy of multiculturalism, in effect since 1971, on Italians in Canada
Murder, Womanly Virtue, and Motherhood
ON THE AFTERNOON OF EASTER SUNDAY, •6 April •9• •, Angelina Napolitano, a twenty-eight-year-old Italian mother of four, killed her husband with an axe as he lay asleep in the bedroom of the quarters they rented in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The subsequent court case, during which Napolitano admitted to killing her husband in retaliation for prolonged physical abuse and his insistence that she become aprostitute, brought the soft-spoken immigrant w…
Such Hardworking People
Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to Toronto during this period were predominantly young, healthy women and men eager to obtain jobs and prepared to make sacrifices in order to secure a mor…
Such Hardworking People
Gender Conflicts
Contents Contributors / Introduction 1 'When the Mother of the Race Is Free': Race, Reproduction, and Sexuality in First-Wave Feminism Mariana Valverde 2 'Maidenly Girls' or 'Designing Women'? The Crime of Seduction in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario Karen Dubinsky 3 The 'Hallelujah Lasses': Working-Class Women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 Lynne Marks 4 The Alchemy of Politicization: Socialist Women and the Early Canadian Left Jan…
Gender Conflicts
Such Hardworking People
Manly Militants, Cohesive Communities, and Defiant Domestics
Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Women's History, Gender History and Debating Dichotomies
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Italian Radicals in Canada
FOLLOWING THE FASCIST seizure of power in Italy in October 1922, thousands of Italians hostile to the new regime left their country of origin to escape political persecution and to wage their anti-Fascist campaigns from the relative safety of democracies in Western Europe and the Americas. Anarchists, socialists, and communists left Italy with the intention of continuing in foreign countries their struggle against the state, capitalism, and, of c…
Immigration and Labour
No persuasive account of labour in Australia and Canada can ignore the impact that immigration has wrought on the composition of the working class and preoccupations of workers, unions, and the varied political parties they have sponsored. Highlighting both similarities and differences between countries, the paper explores the paradoxical relationship that immigration has had with the labour movements of Australia and Canada. Although immigrants …
A Nation of Immigrants
Nation of Immigrants
Women, Work, and Protest in the Italian Diaspora
How DO WE THEORIZE global migration, family economies, and labour activism from a women-centred perspective? How do feminist and gendered frameworks challenge histories of diasporas, nationalisms, and the international proletariat?. We aim to explore these questions by focusing on the roughly 27 million people who in the 19th and 20th centuries left the geographical expression called Italy. Our work brings together colleagues from four continents…
Gossip, Contest, and Power in the Making of Suburban Bad Girls
Drawing on a sample of 120 case files created on minor girls charged with juvenile delinquency in the York County Family Court (which processed suburban cases), the article considers the various forces that converged in the making of Toronto’s postwar suburban ‘bad’ girls. It argues that the process of identifying and treating ‘problem’ girls, though allegedly based on neutral, scientific casework procedures, could be messy, imprecise, and prejud…
Forum
Brothers and Sisters
Laboring Across National Borders
A decade-long project on the migration of Italian laborers around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries points to the methodological challenges, theoretical debates, and some of the rewards of transnational analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender in the making of modern national states. Analyses of internationally mobile laborers historicize current transnational studies, problematize the historiography of national groups, and …
Cultures in Contact
In 2002, Dirk Hoerder published his magnum opus, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC, 2002). In this book, Hoerder describes and analyses, with an unusual breadth of scope, the origins, causes, and extent of human migration around the globe from the eleventh century onward to the present day, paying particular attention to the impact migrations have had in the receiving countries and the cultural interaction…
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives
Women, Gender and Transnational Lives
Review(s) of: Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002. pp. xvi + 433. US $70.00 cloth. Review(s) of: Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialised Women in Canadian History by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004. pp. xi + 418. US $29.95 paper
Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in North America and Beyond
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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