| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: immigration and the spatial politics of scale -- The spatial politics of race and gender -- Alma Mater: the architecture of an interethnic social politics -- Limiting the laboring: industrial restructuring and the new migration -- Extracomunitari in post-Fordist Turin -- Race, politics, and protest in the Casbah, or San Salvario, Africa -- Turin feminism: from workerism to interethnic gender alliance -- Making Alma Mater: gender, race, and other differences -- Conclusion: speaking subjects -- Epilogue: gender and globalization at the G8 in Genoa, July 2001 |
| Summary |
Heather Merrill investigates how migrants and Northern Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. Using rich ethnographic material, Merrill traces the emergence of Alma Materan anti-racist organization formed to address problems encountered by migrant women. Through this analysis, she reveals the dynamics of an alliance consisting of women from many countries of origin and religious and class backgrounds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Alma Mater (Organization : Turin, Italy)
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| SUBJECT |
Alma Mater (Organization : Turin, Italy) fast |
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Feminism -- Italy
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Women, Black -- Italy -- Social conditions
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Women immigrants -- Italy -- Turin
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Africans -- Italy -- Turin
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Feminism -- International cooperation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Africans
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Feminism
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Feminism -- International cooperation
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Race relations
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Women, Black -- Social conditions
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Women immigrants
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Turin (Italy) -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Italy
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Italy -- Turin
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005031557 |
| ISBN |
9780816694846 |
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0816694842 |
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9781299917729 |
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1299917720 |
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0816641587 |
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9780816641581 |
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