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- Title
Playing Italian: Cross-Cultural Dress and Investigative Journalism at the Fin de Siècle.
- Authors
VORACHEK, LAURA
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the adoption of ethnic costumes by female investigative journalists during the 19th century. According to the author, ethnic attire gave middle-class women access to England's working-class Italian communities while shielding them from unwanted sexual attention. It is suggested that these reporters' accounts reveal more about gender and spatial mobility in London, England than they do about the challenges faced by the urban poor.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ETHNIC costume; WOMEN journalists; ITALIANS; HISTORY of investigative reporting; GENDER; HISTORY
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2012, Vol 45, Issue 4, p406
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2012.0038