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Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America
- Title
- Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America / Christiane Harzig [and others] ; edited by Christiane Harzig.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1997]
- ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1439.C47 P43 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Harzig, Christiane.
- Description
- xii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 different dynamics. In the initial phase, adaptation, the new environment demands major changes of incoming immigrants to meet basic needs. The second dynamic, acculturation, involves changes for immigrants and also for the new culture with which they interact."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Börngen, ..
- Europa
- Women immigrants > Illinois > Chicago
- Women > Europe, Northern > Social conditions
- Emigration and immigration
- Rural conditions
- Women immigrants
- Women > Social conditions
- Auswanderung
- Europäische Einwanderin
- Ländlicher Raum
- Stadtleben
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Frau
- Vrouwen
- Immigranten
- Steden
- Women immigrants > Illinois > Chicago > History
- Women > Europe > Social conditions
- Immigrés > États-Unis > Illinois
- Femmes > Europe du Nord > Conditions sociales
- Europe > Rural conditions
- Europe, Northern > Emigration and immigration
- Europe
- Northern Europe
- Illinois > Chicago
- Chicago, Ill
- Europe > Emigration and immigration > History
- Europe du Nord > Émigration et immigration
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0801483956
- 9780801483950
- 0801432731
- 9780801432736
- LCCN
- 97005368
- OCLC
- ocm36407723
- 36407723
- SCSB-2126629
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library