1869, Ep. 157 with Felia Allum, author of Women of the Mafia

1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Women of the Mafia: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/ Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/66ZHk_WmYWFLUANWFtixUAe64Sc?utm_source=copy_url Felia Allum is Professor in the department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (UK). Her research focuses on organized crime, Italian Mafias, criminal mobility, gender and political corruption. She is the award-winning author of The Invisible Camorra. We spoke to Felia about why the conventional wisdom that all women are victims of a male-only mafia that excludes them is false; how women’s criminal activities within the mafia of Naples, Italy are hidden for a variety of reasons; and, why in the private sphere women are actually the key to the power of the Neapolitan Camorra and are its very backbone.