Immigrant women / edited by Maxine Schwartz Seller.

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

About a Wheat Field and a Bowl of Barley Porridge / Vilhelm Moberg -- "Factory Girls" / Chea Villanueva -- "My Education and Aspirations Demanded More" / Marie Zakrzewska -- "He Has the Right to Command You" / Marie Hall Ets -- "I Remember How Scared I Was" / Golda Meir -- "I Am Alive to Tell You This Story ..." / Anonymous -- Issei Women: "Picture Brides" in America / Emma Gee -- "I Escaped with My Life" / Guri Endreson -- "Urbanization Without Breakdown" / Corinne Azen Krause -- The Diary of a Rent Striker: "Harlem and Hope" / Innocencia Flores -- "Paths upon Water" / Tahira Naqvi -- Strategies for Growing Old: Basha Is a Survivor / Barbara Myerhoff -- "Better We Glean Than Our Children Starve" / Hope Williams Sykes -- A Physician in the "First True 'Woman's Hospital' in the World" / Marie Zakrzewska -- "The Duties of the Housewife Remain Manifold and Various" / Sophonisba Breckinridge -- "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.

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.

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