Immigrant women /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1994.
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| Edition: | Rev., 2nd ed. |
| Series: | SUNY series in ethnicity and race in American life
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=6030 |
Table of Contents:
- About a Wheat Field and a Bowl of Barley Porridge / Vilhelm Moberg
- "Factory Girls" / Chea Villanueva
- "My Education and Aspirations Demanded More" / Marie Zakrzewska
- "He Has the Right to Command You" / Marie Hall Ets
- "I Remember How Scared I Was" / Golda Meir
- "I Am Alive to Tell You This Story ..." / Anonymous
- Issei Women: "Picture Brides" in America / Emma Gee
- "I Escaped with My Life" / Guri Endreson
- "Urbanization Without Breakdown" / Corinne Azen Krause
- The Diary of a Rent Striker: "Harlem and Hope" / Innocencia Flores
- "Paths upon Water" / Tahira Naqvi
- Strategies for Growing Old: Basha Is a Survivor / Barbara Myerhoff
- "Better We Glean Than Our Children Starve" / Hope Williams Sykes
- A Physician in the "First True 'Woman's Hospital' in the World" / Marie Zakrzewska
- "The Duties of the Housewife Remain Manifold and Various" / Sophonisba Breckinridge
- "With Respect and Feelings": Voices of West Indian Child Care and Domestic Workers in New York City / Shellee Colen
- The Immigrant Woman and Her Job: Agnes D., Mrs. E., Angelina, Minnie, Louise M., and Theresa M. / Caroline Manning
- "I Consider Myself a 'Theater Worker' ..." / Dolores Frida
- "She Will Deny Herself Innocent Enjoyments": Dutiful Irish Daughters / John Francis Maguire
- Unmarried Mothers / Grace Abbott
- Syrian Women in Chicago: "New Responsibilities ... New Skills" / Safia Haddad
- "Once You Marry Someone It Is Forever" / Michiko Tanaka
- The Vine and the Fruit / Hope Williams Sykes
- "We Want to Give a Complete Picture of Who We Are" "Palm Sunday 1981" / Lorenza
- A Family Disrupted: "Shikata Ga Nai"
- This Cannot Be Helped" / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
- "If One Could Help Another" / Vilhelm Moberg
- "Let Us Join Hands": The Polish Women's Alliance / Thaddeus Radzialowski
- Rosa and the Chicago Commons: "How Can I Not Love America?" / Marie Hall Ets
- "The Free Vacation House" / Anzia Yezierska
- "I Bridge a Gap Between Two Cultures": Lyu-Volckhausen, Advocate for the Korean Community / Anne Field
- "People Who Do This Kind of Work Are in Such Danger of Burnout": Judy Baca, "Urban Artist" / Diane Neumaier
- "The Lessons Which Most Influenced My Life ... Came from My Parents," / Harriet Pawlowska
- "An Impossible Dream": The Struggle for Higher Education / Elizabeth Loza Newby
- The Stubborn Twig: "My Double Dose of Schooling" / Monica Sone
- "I Am a Housewife": English Lessons for Vietnamese Women / Gail Paradise Kelly
- "Glad That I Am the Future" / a Memphis teenager
- Unfulfilled Aspirations: "Never Used the Brush and Ink" / Teiko Tomita
- At the End of the Sante Fe Trail / Blandina Segale
- "This Is Law, But Where Is the Justice of It" / Ernestine Potowski Rose
- "In Memoriam
- American Democracy" / Emma Goldman
- The March of the Mill Children / Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones
- Fasting for Suffrage: "We Don't Want Other Women Ever to Have to Do This Over Again" / Rose Winslow
- "Black Women of the World ... Push Forward" / Amy Jacques Garvey
- "Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years": The Farah Strike / Lauri Coyle, Gail Hershatter and Emily Honig
- A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Parish and the Hill / Mary Doyle Curran
- "This Is Selina" / Paule Marshall
- "We Can Begin to Move toward Sisterhood" / Barbara Mikulski
- Join My Struggle: "A Poem for Marshall" / Anne Martinez
- Asian-American Women and Feminism: "Gender Equality ... Is Not the Exclusive Agenda" / Lucie Cheng
- Generations of Women / Janice Mirikitani.