Maria Cammarata, was a prominent female leader of the Fascio dei lavoratori in Piana dei Greci (now Piana degli Albanesi), part of the Fasci Siciliani movement.
The role of women in the Fasci Siciliani was substantial,[1] but is regularly overlooked in historical accounts.
[3] In Piana the women organised a boycott of annual religious procession in protest of the priest’s opposition to the movement in 1893.
[4][5] At the congress in Palermo in May 1893 where the union of all the Fasci in Sicily was decided, Maria Cammarata, of the Fascio of Piana, urged the audience to ensure the registration of women.
[2] The presence and political sophistication of the female representatives at the congress surprised the male editor of the Giornale di Sicilia: "I could not believe it myself.