Women of Courage

Name: Women of Courage
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Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York

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Contributions in Women's Studies

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In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country. Based on a major new study that includes in-depth interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New York City area in the early 1900s, this volume explores family and work lives led by these women and the relative importance of cultural factors to the two groups' adjustment to American life. The interviews trace the process of adapting to life in the U.S., paying special attention to the specific experiences of women immigrants and the challenges they faced in surmounting gender and cultural barriers both within their families and in their new communities. This innovative, interdisciplinary study uses feminist approaches to explore immigrant women's lives from childhood to old age. The result is a nuanced view of the similarities and differences between the two groups, whose distinct family structures and cultural backgrounds led to different responses to the same pressures and difficulties.

Author Biography:

ROSE LAUB COSER was Professor Emerita of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College. A distinguished sociological pioneer, she wrote eight books and countless articles. She also sat on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Gender & Society, Dissent, and The American Journal of Sociology, and was President of the Eastern Sociological Society and Vice President of the American Sociological Association. LAURA S. ANKER is Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Her publications on women and immigration explore the use of life histories as historical sources. She is currently working on a book based on immigrant narratives from the Connecticut Federal Writers Project in the 1930s. ANDREW J. PERRIN is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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August 30th, 1999

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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From 7 to 17 years

Pages

176

Series

Contributions in Women's Studies

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780313308208

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7019934

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