Publication

1994 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing554995
  • Goodreads1629739

Classifications

  • DDC305.48/8
  • LCCJV6601.W7 G33 1994

Description

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.--

Subjects

Topics

HistoryForeign workersWomen immigrantsWomen alien laborWomen foreign workersImmigrants, united statesWomen, united states, history

Places

Other Editions

  • From the other side: women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990Indiana University Press1994-01-01

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