Italian Patterns in the American Collandia Ladies' Club: How do Women Make Bella Figura?

doi:10.4324/9780203929124-36

ABSTRACT

Italians have immigrated to Chicago since about 1850. The greatest numbers came between 1880 and 1914, with additional peaks in the 1920s and in the period from 1946 to the 1980s, when Italian immigration ended.