Introduction: Starting from Home -- Ch. 1. Women and International Migration: Moving Beyond Unproductive Polarizations -- Ch. 2. "Why Did We Have to Leave?": The Shifting Patterns of Jewish Women's Lives in Russia at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 3. "Take Me to America": The Origins of Italian Women's Migration to the United States at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 4. "So, We Have Crossed Half the World for This?": The Incorporation of Immigrant Wives and Mothers in New York, 1870-1924 -- Ch. 5. "The Right to a Personality": The Experiences of Young Single Immigrant Women in New York, 1870-1924.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index.