Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America

Title
  1. Peasant maids, city women : from the European countryside to urban America / Christiane Harzig [and others] ; edited by Christiane Harzig.
Published by
  1. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1997]
  2. ©1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Harzig, Christiane.
Description
  1. xii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Börngen, ..
  2. Europa
  3. Women immigrants > Illinois > Chicago
  4. Women > Europe, Northern > Social conditions
  5. Emigration and immigration
  6. Rural conditions
  7. Women immigrants
  8. Women > Social conditions
  9. Auswanderung
  10. Europäische Einwanderin
  11. Ländlicher Raum
  12. Stadtleben
  13. Aufsatzsammlung
  14. Frau
  15. Vrouwen
  16. Immigranten
  17. Steden
  18. Women immigrants > Illinois > Chicago > History
  19. Women > Europe > Social conditions
  20. Immigrés > États-Unis > Illinois
  21. Femmes > Europe du Nord > Conditions sociales
  22. Europe > Rural conditions
  23. Europe, Northern > Emigration and immigration
  24. Europe
  25. Northern Europe
  26. Illinois > Chicago
  27. Chicago, Ill
  28. Europe > Emigration and immigration > History
  29. Europe du Nord > Émigration et immigration
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.