Italian Women and Girls: Interview with Lucia Leonelli by Carmela Santoro

Italian Women and Girls: Interview with Lucia Leonelli by Carmela Santoro

Social and Cultural Anthropology; Ethnic identity; Italian American women -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Oral history -- Immigrants -- 20th century -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Italian Americans -- Social life and customs; Ethnic neighborhoods -- Rhode Island -- Providence

This is an audio file. The interview has been catalogued as 20 of 24 from box 7 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Italian Women and Girls,' is located on audio cassette 14. Most of this interview exchanges between Italian and English.

Leonelli, Lucia

Italian Women and Girls was created by Dr. Carmela E. Sontoro, a professor of history at Rhode Island College and a descendant of Italian immigrants. She believed that Italian women had been stereotyped as "illiterate, unthinking and living to be the possesion of her husband,." To find the truth, she interviewed her moth, friends and neighbors and extended her search to women across the state. From her interviews with 70 Italian immigrant women, Dr. Santoro found them to be "much more complex and diversified persons" who play an important role in their families.

Digital Initiatives Press: Rhode Island College

1975-10-22

Italian, English

audio

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