Foreign and female : immigrant women in America, 1840-1930 / Doris Weatherford ; foreword by Lillian Schlissel.

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Main Author: Weatherford, Doris.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Schocken Books, 1986.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-282) and index. 
505 0 |a pt. I. The body and soul -- Fatalistic conceptions -- Those uncontrolled births -- In sickness and in health -- The immigrant way of death -- Religion here and hereafter -- pt. II. Ambivalence in morality -- Courting customs -- Marriage, divorce, and desertion -- Illicit sex -- pt. III. Domesticity: the old and the new -- The fruit of the land -- Of hovels, homes, and hopes -- Housework and child care -- Custom in costume -- pt. IV. The contributions of these women -- Supporting families -- Their work and their wages -- Foreign domestics -- Homes on the range -- pt. V. The complexities of it all -- Standards and double standards -- Travails of travel -- An ocean apart: separation and its effects -- pt. VI. The ties that bind -- Family relationships -- Women's place in the new world -- pt. VII. Content and discontent -- Views of the new world. 
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