Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
©1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.