Olive Grrrls: Italian North American Women & The Search For Identity

"Jersey Shore," "Mob Wives," "Brooklyn 11223," and "Mama’s Boys of the Bronx" are currently the only media representations of Italian Americans in our culture. If you’re Italian American you have very few positive images to identify with, and if you’re a woman, these positive images decrease exponentially. According to current media, all 20-something Italian American women are loud, brash, idiotic, overtly sexual, and materialistic. We resist these cultural depictions of our ethnicity and our gender.

It’s time to take back our voice.

"Olive Grrrls" is about Italian North American women and their search for identity. This anthology includes various women writing on culture/ethnicity, feminism, sexuality, body image, and activism.