Author: Kristina LindborgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Five Mexican-American Women in Transition
Author: Kristina LindborgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Gendered Transitions
Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520075145
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Edited by a leading pioneer of immigration studies, this volume offers some of the latest and most brilliant thinking about what migrant men and women bring to the United States, leave behind and create anew. This is a must read for those interested in immigration, gender, and the many meanings of life."—Arlie Russell Hochschild, co-editor with Barbara Ehrenreich of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy "Moving between individual decisions and broad political and economic forces, and focusing on family and community in Mexico and the U.S., Hondagneu-Sotelo's pathbreaking book casts new light on the centrality of gender for patterns of migration. A superb intersection of ethnography, history and theory."—Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley "A path-breaking book combining the study of gender with immigration to show how Mexican women and men continually reinvent themselves and their family lives in the U.S. Gendered Transitions offers rich insights into the complexities of women's settlement experiences and marks a new era in immigration studies."—Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University
Perspectives of Mexican-American Womanhood Through the Lives of Five Women
Author: Kristina LindborgChanging Woman
Author: Karen AndersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198022131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by middle-class white women, and is skewed to their experiences. Yet discrimination against racial ethnic women is in fact dramatically different--more complex and more widespread--and without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the full extent of discrimination against all women in America will be woefully inadequate. Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women in the three main ethnic groups in the United States--Native American, Mexican American, and African American women--revealing the many ways in which these groups have suffered oppression, and the profound effects it has had on their lives. Here is a thought-provoking examination of the history of racial ethnic women, one which provides not only insight into their lives, but also a broader perception of the history, politics, and culture of the United States. For instance, Anderson examines the clash between Native American tribes and the U.S. government (particularly in the plains and in the West) and shows how the forced acculturation of Indian women caused the abandonment of traditional cultural values and roles (in many tribes, women held positions of power which they had to relinquish), subordination to and economic dependence on their husbands, and the loss of meaningful authority over their children. Ultimately, Indian women were forced into the labor market, the extended family was destroyed, and tribes were dispersed from the reservation and into the mainstream--all of which dramatically altered the woman's place in white society and within their own tribes. The book examines Mexican-American women, revealing that since U.S. job recruiters in Mexico have historically focused mostly on low-wage male workers, Mexicans have constituted a disproportionate number of the illegals entering the states, placing them in a highly vulnerable position. And even though Mexican-American women have in many instances achieved a measure of economic success, in their families they are still subject to constraints on their social and political autonomy at the hands of their husbands. And finally, Anderson cites a wealth of evidence to demonstrate that, in the years since World War II, African-American women have experienced dramatic changes in their social positions and political roles, and that the migration to large urban areas in the North simply heightened the conflict between homemaker and breadwinner already thrust upon them. Changing Woman provides the first history of women within each racial ethnic group, tracing the meager progress they have made right up to the present. Indeed, Anderson concludes that while white middle-class women have made strides toward liberation from male domination, women of color have not yet found, in feminism, any political remedy to their problems.
Work, Family, and Health
Author: Ruth E. ZambranaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hispanic American women
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Mexican Women in Transition
Author: Carol G. HixsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Complex Transitions
Author: Angela Gallegos-CastilloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American teenage girls
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Now Hiring
Author: Julia Kirk BlackwelderPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In Now Hiring, historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder adroitly traces the evolution of the American occupational structure, delineating the main lines of the development of the female work force and its interactions with education, family life, and social convention.
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Author: Alma M. GarcíaPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759101821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Annotation "Alma M. Garcia offers an innovative interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of self-discovery and self-reflection, a process fille"
Forged Under the Sun
Author: María Elena LucasPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The compelling oral history of a remarkable woman's life and political struggle