Seeking Common Ground
Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States
Published on 9. October 1992
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-313-27483-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-27483-1 (9780313274831)
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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.
Content
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