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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Donna Gabaccia
The Study of Immigrant Women in History, Sociology and Anthropology
The Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change by Sydney Stahl Weinberg
Sociology and Immigrant Women by Rita J. Simon
Anthropology and the Study of Immigrant Women by Caroline B. Brettell and Patricia A. deBerjeois
The Immigrant Women of the Past
The International Marriage Market and the Sphere of Social Reproduction: A German Case Study by Suzanne Sinke with Stephen Gross
Catholic Sisterhoods and the Immigrant Church by Deirdre Mageean
Ideology, Ethnicity and the Gendered Subject: Reading Immigrant Autobiographies by Betty Bergland
Picture Brides: Feminist Analysis of Life Histories of Hawaii's Early Immigrant Women from Japan, Okinawa and Korea by Alice Chai
Immigrant Women Since 1920
The Flapper and the Chaperone: Historical Memory Among Mexican American Women by Vicki L. Ruiz
Understanding U.S. Immigration: Why Some Countries Send Women and Others Send Men by Katharine Donato
Cuban Women in New Jersey: Gender Relations and Change by Yolanda Prieto
A Study of Asian Immigrant Women Undergoing Postpartum Depression by Young I. Song
Afterword by Donna Gabaccia
Bibliography

About the Author

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.