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Women Of Honour Madonnas Godmothers And Informers In Italy's Mafias
Women Of Honour Madonnas Godmothers And Informers In Italy's Mafias
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Description: The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male - dominated society women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers. But as Milka Kahn and Anne Veron reveal in this absorbing book women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organisations as the guarantors of mafia culture. While the men are behind bars or on the run it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed they push their sons to vendetta; they are increasingly becoming mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives and break with 'the Family' collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of a normal life. So who are these women? Are they pure Madonnas or dangerous Godmothers? Women of Honour paints a complex and fascinating portrait through extremely rare interviews with the women themselves who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary lives.
Title: Women Of Honour Madonnas Godmothers And Informers In Italy's Mafias
Author(s): Veron Anne
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849048064
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2017
Category: Organized Crime
Description: The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male - dominated society women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers. But as Milka Kahn and Anne Veron reveal in this absorbing book women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organisations as the guarantors of mafia culture. While the men are behind bars or on the run it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed they push their sons to vendetta; they are increasingly becoming mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives and break with 'the Family' collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of a normal life. So who are these women? Are they pure Madonnas or dangerous Godmothers? Women of Honour paints a complex and fascinating portrait through extremely rare interviews with the women themselves who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary lives.
Title: Women Of Honour Madonnas Godmothers And Informers In Italy's Mafias
Author(s): Veron Anne
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849048064
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2017
Category: Organized Crime