Book Reviews
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284 BOOK REVIEWS Giuseppe Rocca's study of immigrants in the Genoa urban area; Elena dell'Agnese's paper on gypsies in the Milan region; Franca Miani Uluhogian on integration and marginality of immigrants in Parma and Reggio Emilia; Pasquale Coppola and Maurizio Memoli's innovative piece on immigrant social space in Naples; and Sandra Chistolini's paper on 'street racism' and intercultural education. For the rest, this book is not a particularly impressive advertisement for Italian geography nor its capacity to offer insights into the urban, regional and human problems of contemporary Italy. Russell King University of Sussex, UK Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon and Janice Monk (eds) WOMEN OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE POLITICS OF WORK AND DAILY LIFE Routledge, London, 1996, 288 pp., 14.99 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-11880-8. The cover photo of the latest volume of 'The Routledge Series of International Studies of Women and Place' fascinates me and also gives food for thought: a citizen of an East Central European country, 'admiring' the European Union (EU) from the outside for the time being, I am particularly shocked by it. Having hardly recovered from the bewilderment of hearing parliamentary voices sending the members of 'the fairer sex' back to household chores in my