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The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to
established European feminist movements. In this book the author
assesses the significance of female immigration to Italy and its
impact on Italian feminism by analyzing the way in which immigrant
and Italian women have constructed their relationships over the
past 30 years. The book provides comprehensive overviews of the
Italian women's movement and the history of immigration to Italy
before examining the formation of immigrant women's groups, the
treatment of immigrant women by Italian women's associations, and
the forging of new relationships in multicultural women's
organizations. Broader comparisons on European migration are made
to contextualize immigration to Italy and Southern Europe more
generally. By drawing from a variety of research materials such as
structured interviews, participant observation and empirical data,
the book contributes to an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of gender, migration and contemporary Italian history. The book is
of interest for scholars and postgraduates in the fields of women
and gender studies, migration studies and contemporary European
history.
The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to
established European feminist movements. In this book the author
assesses the significance of female immigration to Italy and its
impact on Italian feminism by analyzing the way in which immigrant
and Italian women have constructed their relationships over the
past 30 years. The book provides comprehensive overviews of the
Italian women's movement and the history of immigration to Italy
before examining the formation of immigrant women's groups, the
treatment of immigrant women by Italian women's associations, and
the forging of new relationships in multicultural women's
organizations. Broader comparisons on European migration are made
to contextualize immigration to Italy and Southern Europe more
generally. By drawing from a variety of research materials such as
structured interviews, participant observation and empirical data,
the book contributes to an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of gender, migration and contemporary Italian history. The book is
of interest for scholars and postgraduates in the fields of women
and gender studies, migration studies and contemporary European
history.
The women of the Socialist/Communist Unione Donne Italiane (UDI)
and the lay Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) are the
protagonists in this keen study of the relationship between
national Italian women's associations and international women's
movements from 1944, when the associations became active, to 1968,
when another generation of activists led women's movements in a new
direction. By considering the reach and impact of these
organizations in relation to Italian bipolarism (the nearly equal
division of the Italian people into two camps, one pro-Communist
and the other pro-Western) and world events, Dr. Wendy Pojmann
demonstrates that women played a much larger role than Cold War
histories tend to relate. Not just voters, women were active
political participants during the tumultuous decades of the Cold
War. Italian Women in International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968
pays particular attention to the UDI's work with the largest
international postwar women's organization, the pro-Soviet Women's
International Democratic Federation (WIDF), and the CIF's
relationship with the global Catholic organization the World
Movement of Mothers (WMM), to better understand the ways in which
the Cold War affected both national and international agendas for
women's rights. The Italian case is particularly significant in
placing women's movements in a broader context because it
exemplifies many of the political and ideological dichotomies that
characterized this period. With the Christian Democrats at the helm
of the Italian government and the powerful opposition of the
Communists, the Italian women's associations developed and used
creative negotiation strategies to advance their visions of
womanhood in a new era. They applied similar practices in their
international work. This engaging, well-documented book draws on
new and original material from archival collections and oral
histories to develop a critical understanding of the important but
often overlooked period in women's activism between the 1940s and
1970s.
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