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Exiles And Home, Leila Farsakh
Exiles And Home, Leila Farsakh
Leila Farsakh
I have been away from home for over 20 years. But what is home in my case? An Arab woman born to a Palestinian father and an Italian mother, married to a German man and mother to an American daughter, I had traveled a long way. I asked my mother once whether "Hon casa?" (Is this home?). I was 2 years old then, and we had just arrived at my grandfather's house in Italy after a long journey from Jordan. I was just starting to talk, but could only do so by mixing the two languages I was born with: …
Angela Ciaverella, Nostra Bisnonna, Michael C. Vocino
Angela Ciaverella, Nostra Bisnonna, Michael C. Vocino
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Family history of an individual's great grandmother who lived in a small village in the Gargano of Italy's Mezzogiorno.
Six Crosses, Michael C. Vocino
Six Crosses, Michael C. Vocino
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Brief short story or observation about life in a small southern Italian town.
Michael Gets Weighed...In Italia, Michael C. Vocino
Michael Gets Weighed...In Italia, Michael C. Vocino
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Life and customs in a southern Italian town.
Politics Closer To Home: The Impact Of Subnational Institutions On Women In Politics, Candice Ortbals
Politics Closer To Home: The Impact Of Subnational Institutions On Women In Politics, Candice Ortbals
Candice D. Ortbals
Scholars recognize a worldwide increase in decentralization as well as the prevalence of multilevel governance in Europe. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages that meso-level institutions present for women’s political representation in three European Union member-states that are decentralized, unitary states. Using the framework of the triangle of women’s empowerment, we ask whether women are represented in meso-level legislatures, women’s policy agencies, and women’s movements in Italy, Spain, and Poland. We find that gains in meso-level legislatures are slow, but meso-level women’s policy agencies and movements provide important access for women to politics. Like scholars studying women and federalism, …