Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy

188, [12]pp.  Laminated stiff card covers.  8vo.  A little gentle edge wear to card covers, with an unfortunate crease across the upper leading corner, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight. With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded lives of the women of southern Italy in the years after the second world war, when their husbands left to find work in the industrial north and the women were left to tend the fields and keep the home.