| Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928 Subjects: Rural women -- Italy -- Sicily -- Social conditions; Sicily (Italy) -- Rural conditions; Sicily (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Tracing the changing notions of female and male in rural Sicily, Linda Reeder examines the lives of rural Sicilian women and the changes that took place as a result of male migration to the United States. Reeder Linda : Linda Reeder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Missouri - Columbia. |