From the Other Side

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An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field." --Virginia Yans-McLaughlin "Sweeping in scope andprodigious in research, Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons betweenthese female newcomers in both the past and the present and between the experiencesof the foreign-born and other minorities in American society." -- JohnBodnar This long-needed study of women "fromthe other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to theUnited Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities thatcharacterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations andthe present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S.expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallelsbetween the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-bornracial minorities.

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