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Olive Grrrls: Italian American Women & The Search For Identity

“Olive Grrrls: Italian American Women & The Search For Identity”

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“Jersey Shore, Brooklyn 11223, and Mama’s Boys of the Bronx are currently the only representations of Italian Americans in our culture. So, if you’re Italian American you have very few positive images to identify with, and if you’re a woman, these positive images are even less. According to current media, all 20-something Italian American women are loud, brash, idiotic, overtly sexual, and materialistic.

It’s time to take back our voice.

I am of Italian descent, and I lived in Rome for 6 months. While in Rome, I completed a research project on Italian women’s responses to visual culture. It was a truly informative project.

After this experience, I attended grad school for Women’s & Gender Studies at DePaul University. While at DePaul, I had my first vision about this project. I had to put it on the backburner, however, while I finished my thesis.

Now that I have the time, (and the contributors!), I am really, really wanting to complete this project. To my knowledge, there isn’t anything out there regarding Italian American women and feminism, thus, I feel like there is a definite need for this.”

Source: indiegogo.com