"An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field." Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
"Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research, Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons between these female newcomers in both the past and the present and between the experiences of the foreign-born and other minorities in American society." John Bodnar
This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities."
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"An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field." Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
"Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research, Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons between these female newcomers in both the past and the present and between the experiences of the foreign-born and other minorities in American society." John Bodnar
This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities."
Imprint | Indiana University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | February 1995 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | February 1995 |
Authors | Donna Gabaccia |
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 216 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-20904-7 |
Barcode | 9780253209047 |
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LSN | 0-253-20904-8 |