Is the rise in womenâs involvement in organized crime the darker side of their increased presence in the legitimate workplace, or simply a reworking of the mafiaâs traditional male attitudes cloaked in the guise of womenâs emancipation? Women ⦠My aunt ⦠can kill a person with her bare hands ⦠if she were to see me now ⦠she would shoot me down in the middle of the street; sheâs got no problem with that ⦠My mother made my brother feel like the boss; but she was the one who ran everything; he was the boss on the outside, but my mother had the real power ⦠women are in charge, nothing you can do about it." Rita Di Giovine, stateâs witness against the Calabrian âNdrangheta. The insightful essays in Women and the Mafia seek to answer these questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and trace the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. The surprising first hand accounts of mafia women in Italy not only reveal women in power, "generals in skirts", but also tales of severe abuse and violence against women. Does she even have one? This book pulls back the code of silence and shines a light on the dark image of women entangled in organized crime. The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for the Russian mob, runners for Brazilian numbers rackets, and the mystique of the American gangster moll. Where is a womanâs place in the mob? "When something is risky, who do they send?
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Women And The Mafia
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