Date/Time
Sunday 11/06/2022
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Presentation by Pietro Pinna, Ph.D. in Political and Social History of Modern and Contemporary Europe,
Wine industry has traditionally been portrayed as a men’s business. The history of the commitment of many Italian women in California viticulture seems, however, to partially contradict this idea. Although their role has often been downplayed and reduced to the mere support of wives, daughters and mothers, Italian-Californian women enormously contributed to the successes of their family wineries. They also took charge of the transmission of cultural behaviors imported from the motherland and of the care of family relationships, and they contributed to the building of the ‘wine culture’ in the United States. Women like Angela Seghesio, Isabella Simi, Rosa Mondavi, Sylvia Sebastiani and many others represent an extraordinary example of the Italian social and economic contribution to California. Their stories, however, also demonstrate the difficulty of many women to emerge in a male dominated field.
BIO: Pietro Pinna received his Ph.D. degree in Political and Social History of Modern and Contemporary Europe from Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, with a research about political socialization of Italian immigrants to France, and he has been Research Fellow at Università di Bologna (2015-2019). He is a member of the Istituto di Storia Contemporanea in Ferrara. His current research interests include the Italian immigration to California and the Italian-American community in this area. He has published the book Migranti italiani tra fascismo e antifascismo (Bologna, 2012) and the articles “Fresh Water Triumphs”: The Italian American Wine Industry’s Struggle against Prohibition in California («The Italian American Review», Winter 2018), L’industria vinicola italo-americana in California e il proibizionismo («Italia Contemporanea», April 2019) and Donne in the Vineyards: Italian-American Women in the California Wine Industry («Gender & History», June 2022).
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Free to members | $10 donation to Non members
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