American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore 1 Education, Work, and Home Life Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women: Childhood, Work, and Marriage Elizabeth G. Messina 15 ‘‘Why, It’s Mother’’: The Italian Mothers’ Clubs of New York Lorett Treese 32 Connecting Spheres: Women’s Work and Women’s Lives in Milwaukee’s Italian Third Ward Diane C. Vecchio 49 Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants Maria Parrino 57 Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns: Italian-American Women in New York City William Egelman 78 Italian Americans, 1990–2000: A Demographic Analysis of National Data William Egelman 87 Italian-Jewish Intermarriage: The Italian-American Spouse William Egelman, William Gratzer, and Michael D’Angelo 98 Gender Relations among Italian Americans Richard Gambino 110 vii viii Contents Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction Donna Gabaccia 121 The Tradition of Invention: Reading History through La cucina casareccia napoletana Carol Helstosky 123 Italian-American Cookbooks: From Oral to Print Culture Donna Gabaccia 133 Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life: An Introduction Donna Gabaccia 142 A Taste of Memories Catherine Tripalin Murray 143 The Italian Immigrant Kitchen: A Journey into Identity Cassandra Vivian 150 Literature Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco Carole Brown Knuth 159 The Novels of Mari Tomasi Alfred F. Rosa 166 Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Tina De Rosa Lisa A. Meyer 177 Lucy Mancini: The New Woman Paul Levitt 202 Foodways in Italian-American Narrative Rose De Angelis 206 In Our Ears, a Voice: The Persistence of the Trauma of Immigration in Blue Italian and Umbertina Mary Ann Mannino 215 Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome Blossom S. Kirschenbaum 225 Contents ix Mary di Michele’s Elegies Nathalie Cooke 232 Interview with Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert Christina Bevilacqua 240 Simona Griffo, Detective Hero: A Series of ‘‘Troublems’’ Blossom S. Kirschenbaum 250 Writing Life, Writing History: Italian-American Women and the Memoir Edvige Giunta 260 Art, Music, and Film Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor Carol Scarvalone Kushner 271 Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva James Drake 284 Nancy Savoca: An Appreciation Jacqueline Reich 300 Studies about Italian-American Women Italian-American Women: A Review Essay Donna Gabaccia 307 Materials from Arno Press: The Italian-American Woman Maxine Seller 333 Italian Women in America: Sources for Study Betty Boyd Caroli 337 List of Contributors 349 Index 355 ...