Women of the Shadows: A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy
- ISBN-10
- 0140147853
- ISBN-13
- 9780140147858
- Category
- Italy, Southern
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-07
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Ann Cornelisen
Description
"With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows, depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heart-rending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for the factories of the industrial north, while they remained behind to work the fields. With an extraordinary understanding of their interior lives, Cornelisen brings these women out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories."--Back cover.
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