Carmen Anthony Fiore    VOICES OF THE DAUGHTERS is a forum in
book format for the daughters of the Italian immigrants. At the
turn of the century, in southern Italy, unmarried females
weren't allowed to travel to the next village unchaperoned. Yet,
their fathers put them on ships in Naples and sent them across
an ocean to marry strangers waiting for them in New York--the
ethnic equivalent of today's Asiatic mail-order brides. But
these young Italian women were to become more than brides to men
they hardly knew; they were to become the hearts and souls of
the Italian-American families across America. The daughters of
these formidable Italian women are now doing more than cooking
and cleaning. They are involved with professions and careers as
well as being wives and mothers. They have become the modern
"superwomen" with an ethnic slant. Listen to some of their
comments: I was ashamed for a very short time to be considered
the little Italian girl with the pierced ears. I think they were
afraid for us to make wav