From the other side : women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990

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From the other side : women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990 / Donna Gabaccia.

Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949- (Author).

Summary:

This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities.-- Provided by Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0253325293
ISBN: 9780253325297
ISBN: 0253209048
ISBN: 9780253209047
Physical Description: 192 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-186) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Coming to the United States: Where is the other side? ; The women of the other side ; From minority to majority -- Foreign and female : Continuities in immigrant life: Lives of labor ; All her kin ; Working together -- Changing : Class and culture in the twentieth century: Middle-class immigrants ; Preservation and innovation.