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

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Index activities of women: charitable, educational , social, 311, 334, 335; kinship work, 311; Omaha study of work, 11, 334; work outside home, 311, 334. See also labor activism; labor unions Adams, Kay, 202–3, 204; compared to Lucy Mancini, 202 agoraphobia, 264 agriculture, 318; agrotowns, 318; feminization of, 318 Aiello, Rosa, 124, 125, 127, 131, 132n4 Aiello, Rose, 139n2 Albright, Carol Bonomo, 221 Alfredo, Panzini, 127 Alta House, activities of, 62–63 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 271, 278, 283n18 American Academy in Rome, 7, 226. See also Caponegro, Mary; Ciardi, John; Scaravaglione, Concetta American University in Cairo Press, 152 Americanization: of Italian name, 336n3; of religious faith, 318, 334; role of settlement houses in, 63; role of YMCA in, 40; of women, 313. See also family conflict; social workers amoral familism, 110, 111, 115, 116, 118 ancestors, search for, 12, 151, 223, 241, 264, 276, 282 anger, 2, 6, 27, 170, 183, 192, 198, 216, 218, 234, 265 Antin, Mary, 57, 66, 67 355 Arezzo, 150 Arno Press, 11; information on women found in, 331–36 artists: Scaravaglione, Concetta, 271–83 Artusi, Pellegrino, 123, 134 assimilation, 2, 5, 10, 22, 58, 84, 97, 99, 107, 205, 217, 219–22, 230, 311, 316 autobiographies, 77n64; and gender, 59; and group identity, 59–60; by women, 57–77, 72n4, 76n48, 260– 67, 271, 309, 319, 321 baccala, 151 Baltimore, 284, 298, 340, 344 Banfield, Edward C., 110, 115, 116 Bard College, 225, 249 Barolini, Helen, 206, 207–12; Chiaroscuro , 262; The Dream Book, 8, 263, 319; Festa, 138; ‘‘Greener Grass,’’ 10; Umbertina, 10, 207–12, 217, 220–22 beauty, in Italian-American culture, 148, 174, 183–85, 195, 282 Benevolent Society, 344 bengodi, 126. See also cuccagna binational: fiction, 230; identity, 225 biography, 7, 319 ‘‘Black Hand,’’ 48, 52 boarding house, 52, 341 Boni, Ada, 136, 153 ‘‘Bread and Roses’’ strike, women’s role in, 117, 327 Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 121, 206 Brin, Irene, 128 Bronx Italian, 261, 300 356 Index Brooklyn, 242, 243, 274, 340, 344; Williamsburg , 40, 242, 248 Brown University Writing Program, 226, 231 Bugialli, Giuliano, 153 businesswomen, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 207; as cigar makers, 48, 49; and domestic duties, 47–56; and family businesses, 47–56 Bynum, Caroline (Walker), 206 Calabria, 115, 155, 271, 276, 278, 282 Calleri, Maria, 263 campanilismo, 35–36 Camporesi, Piero, 123 Capatorto, Rosette, 261 capitalism, 114, 184; confrontation with, 315 Caponegro, Mary, 3, 8, 225–31 Cappello, Mary, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265 Caronia, Nancy, 261 Caruso, Enrico, 293, 294, 295, 297, 298 La casareccia napoletana pei golosi e buongustai , 123, 125, 126, 129, 131 Catholic, 4, 29, 58, 114, 117, 118, 129, 185, 188, 189, 190, 202, 218, 235, 263, 264, 303, 316, 321 Cavalleri, Rosa, 3, 63, 262 census, 9, 48, 53, 79, 309, 339, 349, 341, 342 Chiaroscuro, 262 Chicago, 6, 38, 41, 49, 148, 162, 164, 177, 178, 189, 276, 293, 340ff; Opera, 49, 293. See also Commons House children, 83, 85, 99, 102, 105, 107, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118–19, 138, 161ff, 170, 173, 188, 205, 207, 209–10, 215, 216, 221–22, 233, 242, 244, 248, 254, 271, 311, 313, 314, 333ff, 342, 343 Christmas, 106, 150, 228 Ciardi, John, 230 cigar manufacturers, 48, 49 Ciresi, Rita, 217, 218, 219 class differences, 59, 63, 117, 130, 131, 221, 222, 337ff Cleveland, 62, 342 clubs: drama, 66, 76; mothers’, 30–46; women’s, 49, 138, 251, 316, 334 college: and economic mobility, 9, 80, 83, 89, 97, 103, 217; expectation of, 4, 39, 166, 186, 202, 221, 244, 277; nurturing children for, 59, 60, 61, 71, 216, 222, 243 Comfort, Bob, 302 Commission Row, 49, 53 Commons House, Chicago, 41, 45, 75, 76, 164, 343 Communion, Holy, 63, 151, 212 comparaggio, 33, 216. See also godparent cookbooks, 121–55; in America, 138; Anglo-American ‘‘Italian,’’ 136; of community, 10, 22, 137, 138, 139, 140–41, 153; during fascism, 127–30, 131; as historical artifacts, 123, 124; and identity, 8, 121, 122, 153–54; invisibility of Italian-American, 10, 138; logistics of writing, 150; motivation to write, 10, 122, 142, 148; refashioned Italian cuisine in, 138; regionalism in, 10, 122, 123, 127 Coover, Robert, 225 Corleone family (The Godfather), 202–4. See also Adams, Kay Cornelisen, Ann, 24, 116, 117, 340. See also Mezzogiorno culture Coro d’Italia, 39 Council of Italian-American Mothers’ Clubs, 42 Council of Jewish Federations, survey of intermarriage, 110 counterrevulsion, in literature, 174 Covello, Leonard...