What role do women play within Sicilian mafia and how has this role been represented in Italian films in recent years? Like a two-headed Janus and notwithstanding the rigid patriarchal structure that ...
1993, Palermo. Rosaria Schifani, the widow of the bodyguard Vito Schifani, assassinated with Judge Giovanni Falcone and other colleagues in 1992. ©"Letizia Battaglia: Passion, Justice, ...
A remarkable group of women is challenging the power structures of the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth main organized crime group that operates in southern Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. They ...
Felia Allum is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). I am sitting in a cafe in downtown Naples listening to Signora Anna* give me an update on her life since her ...
MAFIA: The Women Speak features Pina in a compelling one-woman show that delves into the lives of women entangled with organized crime. Through the narrative of Nella, who leads a women’s Mafia ...
Felia Allum was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2018-2022) and received funding from The Leverhulme Trust for a project on 'Women, crime and culture: transnational organised crime as an equal ...
Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El Jefe.” Desperate Tori asks for help from her ...
A remarkable group of women is challenging the power structures of the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth main organized crime group that operates in southern Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. They ...