Immigrant women / edited by Maxine Schwartz Seller. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seller, Maxine, 1935-

Series:

SUNY series in ethnicity and race in American life

SUNY series in ethnicity and race in American life Immigrant women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--United States--History--19th century.

Women immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Women immigrants--United States--Biography.

Women immigrants--Social conditions--19th century--United States.

Women immigrants--History--20th century--United States.

Women immigrants--History--United States.

Women immigrants--Biography--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 378 p. )

Edition:

Rev., 2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1941-4

0-585-04472-4