Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the Unite

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Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the three disciplines. Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The chapters explore such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past.Seeking Common Ground is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. By providing a basis for comparison between both different ethnic groups and different disciplinary approaches, the volume aims to encourage interdisciplinary communication and research.After the editor's introduction, the volume begins with three chapters (Part I) by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the three disciplines. Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The chapters explore such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past. The work will be of interest to individuals from all disciplines who are concerned with women's studies in general and immigrant women in particular.

Author Biography

DONNA GABACCIA is Charles Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her published works include From Sicily to Elizabeth Street (1984), Militants and Migrants (1988), and Immigrant Women in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1989). She is currently writing a history of immigrant women in the United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Donna GabacciaThe Study of Immigrant Women in History, Sociology and AnthropologyThe Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change by Sydney Stahl WeinbergSociology and Immigrant Women by Rita J. SimonAnthropology and the Study of Immigrant Women by Caroline B. Brettell and Patricia A. deBerjeoisThe Immigrant Women of the PastThe International Marriage Market and the Sphere of Social Reproduction: A German Case Study by Suzanne Sinke with Stephen GrossCatholic Sisterhoods and the Immigrant Church by Deirdre MageeanIdeology, Ethnicity and the Gendered Subject: Reading Immigrant Autobiographies by Betty BerglandPicture Brides: Feminist Analysis of Life Histories of Hawaii's Early Immigrant Women from Japan, Okinawa and Korea by Alice ChaiImmigrant Women Since 1920The Flapper and the Chaperone: Historical Memory Among Mexican American Women by Vicki L. RuizUnderstanding U.S. Immigration: Why Some Countries Send Women and Others Send Men by Katharine DonatoCuban Women in New Jersey: Gender Relations and Change by Yolanda PrietoA Study of Asian Immigrant Women Undergoing Postpartum Depression by Young I. SongAfterword by Donna GabacciaBibliography

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The first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the U.S., this book explores such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past.

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This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the three disciplines. Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The chapters explore such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past. Seeking Common Ground is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. By providing a basis for comparison between both different ethnic groups and different disciplinary approaches, the volume aims to encourage interdisciplinary communication and research. After the editor's introduction, the volume begins with three chapters (Part I) by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the three disciplines. Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The chapters explore such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past. The work will be of interest to individuals from all disciplines who are concerned with women's studies in general and immigrant women in particular.

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The first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the U.S., this book explores such themes as women in the migration process, the role of gender in the creation of American ethnic identities, and the comparability of today's immigrant women with those of the past.

Details ISBN0275943879 Year 1992 ISBN-10 0275943879 ISBN-13 9780275943875 Format Paperback Publication Date 1992-10-30 Country of Publication United States Edited by Donna Gabaccia Birth 1949 Author Donna Gabaccia Short Title SEEKING COMMON GROUND Series Only One Earth Series Language English Media Book Place of Publication Westport Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 272 Subtitle Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States DEWEY 305.480973 Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc DOI 10.1604/9780275943875 Series Number 129 UK Release Date 1992-10-30 AU Release Date 1992-10-30 NZ Release Date 1992-10-30 US Release Date 1992-10-30 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Edition Description Annotated edition Alternative 9780313274831 Audience Undergraduate Audience Age 7-17 We've got this

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