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The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
If you’ve ever had reason to doubt whether women have what it takes to assume leadership roles in organized crime, Barbie Latza Nadeau’s The Godmother will disabuse you of any prejudice.
Whereas the Italian-American Mafia has shown no gender flexibility in its hierarchy, the famously sexist tough guys of Italy are paradoxically more progressive.
Well, kind of.
Women, it turns out, have come to wield great power in the criminal gangs of Italy, primarily the Neapolitan Camorra and Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, but less so in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, from which the American Mafia takes its nom de guerre.
To be sure, much of these “godmothers’” powers derive from their proximity to men, but they are far more than messengers.
Assunta “Pupetta” Marasca is the book’s dark star, having risen to fame after executing her mobster husband’s killer with