Secrets of Life and Death: Women and the Mafia - Couverture souple

Siebert, Renate

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ISBN 10 : 185984023X ISBN 13 : 9781859840238

Editeur : Verso Books, 1996

Synopsis

Secrets of Life and Death is the first book to focus on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the mafia. Drawing on courtroom testimonies, interviews, contemporary journalism and recent research, Siebert cuts through the mafia’s myth of honouring women to expose the harsh realities for women living with, and fighting against, the mafia. With careful attention to the socio-economic realities of southern Italy, she looks at what it actually means to live in the mafia’s shadow. She explores the gains and costs of being a mafia wife in New York or Palermo, probing the emotions underlying women’s mafia loyalties and the sexual lure of the mafioso. In vivid and often harrowing detail, Siebert examines women’s growing resistance to a culture of death and dangerously intensified masculinity. Alongside the public stories of the wives of murdered judges, policemen and politicians, she places the extraordinary accounts of women who have taken a stand against their own mafia upbringing or have spoken out as witnesses, at enormous personal cost. It is women’s courageous initiatives, Siebert shows, which have led to the development of local anti-mafia organizations and recent mass protests in the face of violent intimidation. Poignant and incisive, Secrets of Life and Death breaks the code of silence to tell a story that is both haunting and inspiring.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Renate Siebert studied at the Frankfurt School in the 1960s as a doctoral student of T.W. Adorno. she is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Calabria. Liz Heron has translated many Italian and French authors, including Nanni Balestrini, Giorgio Agamben, Anna Maria Ortese and Herve Guibert. The most recent of her own books is a short-story collection A Red River.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185984023X
• ISBN 13: 9781859840238
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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