Download or read book Women of the Shadows written by Ann Cornelisen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows, depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heart-rending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for the factories of the industrial north, while they remained behind to work the fields. With an extraordinary understanding of their interior lives, Cornelisen brings these women out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories."--Back cover