Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Education, Work, and Home Life -- Narratives of Nine Italian-American Women -- ''Why, It's Mother'' -- Connecting Spheres -- Education in the Autobiographies of Four Italian Women Immigrants -- Traditional Roles and Modern Work Patterns -- Italian Americans, 1990-2000 -- Italian-Jewish Intermarriage -- Gender Relations among Italian Americans -- Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life -- The Tradition of Invention -- Italian-American Cookbooks -- Immigrant Kitchens, Community Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life -- A Taste of Memories -- The Italian Immigrant Kitchen -- Literature -- Transformation in the Verbal Art of Clementina Todesco -- The Novels of Mari Tomasi -- Breaking the Silence -- Lucy Mancini -- Foodways in Italian-American Narrative -- In Our Ears, a Voice -- Mary Caponegro, Prize-Winning American Writer in Rome -- Mary di Michele's Elegies -- Interview with Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert -- Simona Griffo, Detective Hero -- Writing Life, Writing History -- Art, Music, and Film -- Concetta Scaravaglione, Italian-American Sculptor -- Rosa Ponselle, Incomparable Diva -- Nancy Savoca -- Studies about Italian-American Women -- Italian-American Women -- Materials from Arno Press -- Italian Women in America -- Contributors -- Index.