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'Kahn and Véron have trawled newspapers and legal documents and interviewed dozens of women to provide vivid stories of tough-minded female bosses, ruling without mercy.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'These fascinating stories of courage, collaboration and criminal mastery offer new insight into the changing role of women in mafia culture.' * Clare Longrigg, author of Mafia Women * 'Engrossing. Kahn and Véron take us into a world in which women play an important role but in which — with few exceptions — their identities, their private lives and sex lives all belong to their menfolk; a world in which rebellion leads inexorably to either life on a witness protection programme, or death.' * John Hooper, author of The Italians *

'These fascinating stories of courage, collaboration and criminal mastery offer new insight into the changing role of women in mafia culture.'--Clare Longrigg, author of Mafia Women

'Kahn and Veron have trawled newspapers and legal documents and interviewed dozens of women to provide vivid stories of tough-minded female bosses, ruling without mercy.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'These fascinating stories of courage, collaboration and criminal mastery offer new insight into the changing role of women in mafia culture.' * Clare Longrigg, author of Mafia Women * 'Engrossing. Kahn and Veron take us into a world in which women play an important role but in which - with few exceptions - their identities, their private lives and sex lives all belong to their menfolk; a world in which rebellion leads inexorably to either life on a witness protection programme, or death.' * John Hooper, author of The Italians *

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Milka Kahn is a Franco-Italian jurist specialising in European law. She became familiar with the subject of mafia women through her volunteer work with the anti-mafia organisation Libera Palermo. Anne Veron is a Franco-Italian director and creator of several authoritative documentaries on the Italian mafias.

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