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Immigrant Women, Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on rece, Immigrant Women
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  • Immigrant Women
  • Written by author Maxine S. Seller
  • Published by State University of New York Press, 9/30/2009
  • Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on rece
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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


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