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Memories of migration : gender, ethnicity, and work in the lives of Jewish and Italian women in New York, 1870-1924 / Kathie Friedman-Kasaba.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series on women and workPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058504287X
  • 9780585042879
  • 9780791427613
  • 0791427617
  • 9780791427620
  • 0791427625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memories of migration.DDC classification:
  • 305.48/85107471/09034 20
LOC classification:
  • F128.9.A1 F75 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Content -- Women and International Migration: Moving Beyond Unproductive Polarizations -- ""Why Did We Have to Leave?"": The Shifting Patterns of Jewish Women's Lives in Russia at the Turn of the Century -- ""Take Me to America"": The Origins of Italian Women's Migration to the United States at the Turn of the Century.
""So, We Have Crossed Half the World for This?: The Incorporation of Immigrant Wives and Mothers in New York, 1870-1924 -- ""The Right to a Personality: The Experiences of Young Single Immigrant Women in New York, 1870-1924 -- Back Matter -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover.
Summary: Annotation Friedman-Sasaba (sociology and women's studies, U. of Washington-Tacoma) explores migrating women's struggles to remake and redefine themselves under oppressive conditions, contrasting the experiences of Russian-Jewish and Italian women who immigrated to New York City from the last third of the 19th century to the close of mass immigration in 1924. Bandw photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index.

Print version record.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Content -- Women and International Migration: Moving Beyond Unproductive Polarizations -- ""Why Did We Have to Leave?"": The Shifting Patterns of Jewish Women's Lives in Russia at the Turn of the Century -- ""Take Me to America"": The Origins of Italian Women's Migration to the United States at the Turn of the Century.

""So, We Have Crossed Half the World for This?: The Incorporation of Immigrant Wives and Mothers in New York, 1870-1924 -- ""The Right to a Personality: The Experiences of Young Single Immigrant Women in New York, 1870-1924 -- Back Matter -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover.

Annotation Friedman-Sasaba (sociology and women's studies, U. of Washington-Tacoma) explores migrating women's struggles to remake and redefine themselves under oppressive conditions, contrasting the experiences of Russian-Jewish and Italian women who immigrated to New York City from the last third of the 19th century to the close of mass immigration in 1924. Bandw photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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