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Franca Iacovetta

Franca Iacovetta is professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto, and a past president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. A historian of women/gender, migration, and transnational radicals, she has published eleven books, including Before Official Multiculturalism: Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s. Award-winning books include Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada and the co-edited Beyond Women’s Words. She lives in Toronto.

Books by Franca Iacovetta

Cleaning Up

Portuguese Women's Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto

by (author) Susana P. Miranda
with Franca Iacovetta

Before Official Multiculturalism

Women's Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s

by (author) Franca Iacovetta

A Nation of Immigrants

Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper & Robert Ventresca

Sisters or Strangers?

Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition

edited by Marlene Epp & Franca Iacovetta

Edible Histories, Cultural Politics

Towards a Canadian Food History

by (author) Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek & Marlene Epp

Gatekeepers

Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

by (author) Franca Iacovetta

Sisters or Strangers?

Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition

edited by Marlene Epp & Franca Iacovetta

Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives

Italian Workers of the World

edited by Donna R. Gabaccia & Franca Iacovetta

Gender Conflicts

New Essays in Women's History

edited by Franca Iacovetta & Mariana Valverde

Enemies Within

Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad

edited by Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin & Angelo Principe

On the Case

Explorations in Social History

edited by Franca Iacovetta & Wendy Mitchinson

Such Hardworking People

Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto

by (author) Franca Iacovetta