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Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America Christiane Harzig ... [et al.] ; edited by Christiane Harzig
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HQ 1439 .C47 P43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Illinois--Chicago.
- Women immigrants.
- Women--Europe, Northern--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Europe--Rural conditions.
- Europe.
- Europe, Northern--Emigration and immigration.
- Europe, Northern.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 344 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c1997.
- Summary:
- "In concise social histories of four European rural cultures, the authors emphasize the crucial effects of gender. They explore the contrast between each regional culture of origin and the urban experience of ethnic communities in Chicago. The concept of assimilation, they suggest, involves two different dynamics. In the initial phase, adaptation, the new environment demands major changes of incoming immigrants to meet basic needs. The second dynamic, acculturation, involves changes for immigrants and also for the new culture with which they interact."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- No way but out: German women in Mecklenburg / Monika Blaschke
- To be matched or to move: Irish women's prospects in Munster / Deirdre Mageean
- Maids in motion: Swedish women in Dalsland / Margareta Matovic
- Land and loyalties: contours of Polish women's lives / Maria Anna Knothe
- Creating a community: German-American women in Chicago / Christiane Harzig
- Making sense and providing structure: Irish-American women in the parish neighborhood / Deirdre Mageean
- Embracing a middle-class life: Swedish-American women in Lake View / Margareta Matovic
- Recent arrivals: Polish immigrant women's response to the city / Maria Anna Knothe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peasant maids, city women.
- ISBN:
- 0801483956 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801483950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801432731 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801432736 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 36407723
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