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9780801432736

Peasant Maids-City Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801432736

  • ISBN10:

    0801432731

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-06-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

In Peasant Maids--City Women, a truly intercultural project, a team of historians follows several groups of women from rural Europe to the bustling streets of Chicago. Focusing on Germans, Irish, Swedes, and Poles--the four largest foreign-born ethnic groups in the city around 1900--the authors analyze the origins of the immigrants and chart how their lives changed, and explore how immigrant women shaped the urbanization process, creating vibrant public spheres for ethnic expression.

Table of Contents

Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
vii(2)
Preface ix
Introduction: Women Move from the European Countryside to Urban America 1(22)
CHRISTIANE HARZIG
PART I Rural Life 23(160)
1 No Way but Out: German Women in Mecklenburg
25(32)
MONIKA BLASCHKE
2 To Be Matched or to Move: Irish Women's Prospects in Munster
57(42)
DEIRDRE MAGEEAN
3 Maids in Motion: Swedish Women in Dalsland
99(44)
MARGARETA MATOVIC
4 Land and Loyalties: Contours of Polish Women's Lives
143(40)
MARIA ANNA KNOTHE
PART II Urban Life 183(156)
5 Creating a Community: German-American Women in Chicago
185(38)
CHRISTIANE HARZIG
6 Making Sense and Providing Structure: Irish-American Women in the Parish Neighborhood
223(38)
DEIRDRE MAGEEAN
7 Embracing a Middle-Class Life: Swedish-American Women in Lake View
261(38)
MARGARETA MATOVIC
8 Recent Arrivals: Polish Immigrant Women's Response to the City
299(40)
MARIA ANNA KNOTHE
Index 339

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