Reddy is associate professor of american studies at suny old westbury. Well written and meticulously researched, jennifer guglielmo has produced a monograph that anyone interested in gender, ethnicity, and radicalism should read immediately. Winner, 2011 marraro book award, society for italian historical studies and the. Zimmer, kenyon york university, 2010 transatlantic history. This is the new generation of transnational workingclass history at its very best. Revolution by jennifer donnelly is a vivid and captivating book filled with feeling. Excerpt from living the revolution by jennifer guglielmo. Fra noi living the revolution is a brilliantly argued, exhaustively researched, and beautifully written analysis. View jennifer guglielmos profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Jennifer guglielmo is an associate professor of history at smith college in northampton, mass.
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Living italian available for download and read online in other formats. An excerpt from living the revolution by jennifer guglielmo about the life of. Jennifer guglielmo brings to life the italian workingclass women of new york. In living the revolution, jennifer guglielmo brings to life the italian workingclass women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture. Jennifer guglielmo department of history, smith college, wright hall 229. Italian workingclass women in the us at the start of the. Italian womens resistance and radicalism in new york city university of north carolina press, 2010, smith college historian jennifer guglielmo dives into the archives to show that before the first world war italian women were at the forefront of radical, predominantly socialist politics in the. If you havent yet read anything by donnelly, i seriously think you are missing out, and i strongly recommend you fix that. Italian womens resistance and radicalism in new york city, 18801945 2010 and. Y syracuse university press, 1997 article pdf available january 1999 with 33 reads how we measure. Jennifer guglielmo guglielmo brings to life the italian workingclass women of new york and new jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. In the following excerpt from the book, we meet one of the. In this novel, andi is a teenager who has suffered one. Revolution is a young adult novel by writer jennifer donnelly.
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Jennifer guglielmo subverts the stereotype of the domestic italian immigrant woman with her study of multiple generations of feminine political activism for the working class in living the revolution. When her father takes her with him to paris on a business trip to ensure she works on her school thesis, andi discovers a journal written by a girl her age. The author is expansively original in her understanding of the subject and the accomplished integrative analysis of primary and secondary research is of the first order. Living the revolution jennifer guglielmo university of. She has published on a range of topics, including workingclass feminisms, anarchism, whiteness and. In living the revolution, jennifer guglielmo brings to life the italian workingclass women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Guglielmo is the author of the awardwinning book living the revolution. Read living the revolution italian womens resistance and radicalism in new york city, 18801945 by jennifer guglielmo available from rakuten kobo. Jennifer guglielmo specializes in the histories of labor, race, women, migration, transnational cultures and activisms, and revolutionary social movements in the late 19th and 20thcentury united states. Italian womens resistance and radicalism in new york city, 18801945 a century ago, anarchists were everywhere, a movement in constant movement. Ui press kenyon zimmer immigrants against the state.
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