{"product_id":"women-of-honor-milka-kahn-9781849048064","title":"Women of Honor: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia","description":"The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, as Milka Kahn and Anne Véron reveal in this absorbing book, women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organizations, as the guarantors of mafia culture. While the men are behind bars or on the run, it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed, they push their sons to vendetta; they are increasingly becoming others become mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives and break with 'the Family', collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of a normal life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo who are these women? Are they pure Madonnas, or dangerous Godmothers? Women of Honor paints a complex and fascinating portrait through extremely rare interviews with the women themselves, who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milka Kahn,Anne Véron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849048061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849048064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/26\/2017","brand":"Milka Kahn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579874099455,"sku":"9781849048064","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e7727e2-0fe7-4f20-ba27-050f6a4d95d0.jpg?v=1763877254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-of-honor-milka-kahn-9781849048064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}