Living the Revolution
Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5706248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Lynn Mckibben (Palo Alto University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1139-1139 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaq125 |
| OpenAlex | W2316868552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Living the Revolution is a brilliantly argued, exhaustively researched, and beautifully written analysis that posits Italian women at the center of a narrative about radical labor movements in early twentieth-century New York City. The story begins in late nineteenth-century southern Italy to argue that in contrast to myths of passivity, nineteenth-century southern Italian women were independent, strong, defiant, and vocal advocates for social justice and economic power. They organized and openly challenged elites and were particularly drawn to anarchism. Women emigrated not as appendages of men, but to seek economic opportunity in a flourishing transnational labor market. When women encountered exploitation at work in destination sites in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, or the United States, they responded with the same purposeful defiance that served them so effectively in southern Italy. They were integral to transnational networks of radical labor activists, and they were leaders, challenging authority even in the most dangerous moments for labor activists in twentieth-century America such as during the red scare
Art · Economic history · Flourishing · Mythology · Narrative · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |