Immigrant Women Book

	Introduction	1
	About a Wheat Field and a Bowl of Barley Porridge	21
	"Factory Girls"	28
	"My Education and Aspirations Demanded More"	30
	"He Has the Right to Command You"	32
	"I Remember How Scared I Was"	35
	"I Am Alive to Tell You This Story..."	41
	Issei Women: "Picture Brides" in America	53
	"I Escaped with My Life"	59
	"Urbanization Without Breakdown"	62
	The Diary of a Rent Striker: "Harlem and Hope"	67
	"Paths upon Water"	70
	Strategies for Growing Old: Basha Is a Survivor	80
	"Better We Glean Than Our Children Starve"	95
	A Physician in the "First True 'Woman's Hospital' in the World"	98
	"The Duties of the Housewife Remain Manifold and Various"	103
	"With Respect and Feelings": Voices of West Indian Child Care and Domestic Workers in New York City	110
	The Immigrant Woman and Her Job: Agnes D., Mrs. E., Angelina, Minnie, Louise M., and Theresa M.	117
	"I Consider Myself a 'Theater Worker'..."	122
	"She Will Deny Herself Innocent Enjoyments": Dutiful Irish Daughters	139
	Unmarried Mothers	141
	Syrian Women in Chicago: "New Responsibilities... New Skills"	145
	"Once You Marry Someone It Is Forever"	149
	The Vine and the Fruit	154
	"We Want to Give a Complete Picture of Who We Are" "Palm Sunday 1981"	160
	A Family Disrupted: "Shikata Ga Nai" - This Cannot Be Helped"	167
	"If One Could Help Another"	183
	"Let Us Join Hands": The Polish Women's Alliance	190
	Rosa and the Chicago Commons: "How Can I Not Love America?"	196
	"The Free Vacation House"	199
	"I Bridge a Gap Between Two Cultures": Lyu-Volckhausen, Advocate for the Korean Community	206
	"People Who Do This Kind of Work Are in Such Danger of Burnout": Judy Baca, "Urban Artist"	210
	"The Lessons Which Most Influenced My Life...Came from My Parents,"	229
	"An Impossible Dream": The Struggle for Higher Education	235
	The Stubborn Twig: "My Double Dose of Schooling"	243
	"I Am a Housewife": English Lessons for Vietnamese Women	248
	"Glad That I Am the Future"	252
	Unfulfilled Aspirations: "Never Used the Brush and Ink"	253
	At the End of the Sante Fe Trail	267
	"This Is Law, But Where Is the Justice of It"	270
	"In Memoriam - American Democracy"	273
	The March of the Mill Children	278
	Fasting for Suffrage: "We Don't Want Other Women Ever to Have to Do This Over Again"	282
	"Black Women of the World...Push Forward"	285
	"Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years": The Farah Strike	287
	A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe	311
	The Parish and the Hill	318
	"This Is Selina"	323
	"We Can Begin to Move toward Sisterhood"	330
	Join My Struggle: "A Poem for Marshall"	335
	Asian-American Women and Feminism: "Gender Equality . . . Is Not the Exclusive Agenda"	337
	Generations of Women	340
	Bibliographical Essay	345
	Index	371