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

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Label

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

Title remainder

women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990

Statement of responsibility

Donna Gabaccia

Creator

• Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-

Subject

• Geschichte 1820-1990
• Soziale Situation
• Geschichte 1820-1990.
• USA
• History
• Women immigrants
• Women foreign workers
• Einwanderin
• Soziale Situation
• Vrouwen
• Women immigrants -- United States -- History
• Immigranten
• Sekseverschillen
• United States
• USA
• Women foreign workers -- United States -- History
• Einwanderin

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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.--

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.48/8

Index

index present

LC call number

JV6601.W7

LC item number

G33 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography