Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States.

Abstract

Introduction by Donna Gabaccia The Study of Immigrant Women in History, Sociology and Anthropology The Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change by Sydney Stahl Weinberg Sociology and Immigrant Women by Rita J. Simon Anthropology and the Study of Immigrant Women by Caroline B. Brettell and Patricia A. deBerjeois The Immigrant Women of the Past The International Marriage Market and the Sphere of Social Reproduction: A German Case Study by Suzanne Sinke with Stephen Gross Catholic Sisterhoods and the Immigrant Church by Deirdre Mageean Ideology, Ethnicity and the Gendered Subject: Reading Immigrant Autobiographies by Betty Bergland Picture Brides: Feminist Analysis of Life Histories of Hawaii's Early Immigrant Women from Japan, Okinawa and Korea by Alice Chai Immigrant Women Since 1920 The Flapper and the Chaperone: Historical Memory Among Mexican American Women by Vicki L. Ruiz Understanding U.S. Immigration: Why Some Countries Send Women and Others Send Men by Katharine Donato Cuban Women in New Jersey: Gender Relations and Change by Yolanda Prieto A Study of Asian Immigrant Women Undergoing Postpartum Depression by Young I. Song Afterword by Donna Gabaccia Bibliography