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100 1 Weatherford, Doris.
245 10 Foreign and female :|bimmigrant women in America, 1840-
1930 /|cDoris Weatherford.
250 Revised and expanded edition.
264 1 New York, NY :|bFacts on File,|c[1995]
264 4 |c©1995
300 xvi, 432 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Originally published: New York : Schocken Books, 1986.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-426) and
index.
505 0 Who, where, and when: an introductory overview -- Ports
of entry, paths of settlement -- Causes and effects --
Personal note -- Part 1: Body And The Soul -- 1:
Fatalistic conceptions -- Fertile foreigners: birthrates
-- Ambivalence and attempts to limit pregnancy -- Search
for information -- 2: Those uncontrolled births --
Childbirth customs -- Make a miracle: delivery
experiences -- Midwives and medicos -- Prenatal
precautions versus fatalist acceptance -- 3: In sickness
and in health -- Between hope and fear: views of medicine
-- Bathtubs, open windows, and the possibility of
prevention -- Ancient magic and modern snake oil --
Superior old world ways -- Every woman a nurse: health
education -- 4: Immigrant way of death -- Soon angels:
infant and child mortality -- Mothers' and other adult
death -- Saying farewell: immigrant funerals -- 5:
Religion here and hereafter -- New world, new ideas --
Minority views: Jews and Mormons -- Money and morality --
Freedom versus security: variants of faith -- Part 2:
Ambivalence In Morality -- 6: Courting customs -- Family
matter: chaperons, matchmakers, and the old world ways --
On their own: practical courtships by immigrant couples -
- New world weddings -- Wasting your chances: pressure to
marry -- 7: Marriage, divorce, and desertion -- Special
stresses of immigrant marriage -- Unthinkable: divorce --
Desertion: poor man's vacation -- 8: Illicit sex --
Premarital pregnancy -- Adultery and unfit motherhood --
Deadly scandal: venereal disease in the Victorian age --
Prostitution, formal and freelance -- Part 3: Domesticity
: The Old And The New -- 9: Fruit of the land -- Every
letter a grocery list: adjustment amid abundance --
Missing from the menu: nostalgia and shortage -- To the
last ounce of rice: food buying -- Cook as gardener,
gatherer, and hostess -- 10: Hovels, homes, and hope --
Teeming tenements -- Crowded country cabins -- Moving up
the housing ladder --
505 0 11: Cleaning, child care, and clothing -- New ways of old
work -- Housekeeping variations -- Child care and the
placing out of orphans -- To be American is to look
American: clothing -- Ambivalence in appearance -- Part 4
: Contributions Of These Women -- 12: Supporting
families -- Some stunning statistics: unacknowledged
income producers -- Dutiful daughters and indigent
immigrants -- Paving the way to the American dream: girls
supporting families -- 13: Work and wages -- Oldest
employers: textile and garment industries -- Other
typical jobs: candy, cigars, and flowers -- From laundry
to foundry: more women at work -- Boardinghouse boss --
14: Ways of work -- Wages, hours, and other aspects of
the working world -- Unemployment, industrial illness, and
death in the workplace -- Unions, strikes, and solidarity
-- Are you happy?: attitudes toward work -- 15: Foreign
domestics -- American tradition: the immigrant household
worker -- Learning and saving: the job's advantages --
Down side of servitude -- Academic attempts to
professionalize housework -- 16: Homes on the range --
Frontier fear: from prairie fire to fatal freeze --
Native, newcomer, and war -- Subduing the wild: the
female farmer -- From butter to blueberries: other
farming -- Part 5: Complexities Of It All -- 17:
Travails of travel -- When the wind blows: early
emigration by sail -- Steamships and some special hazards
for women -- Lost and alone: ignorance, indifference, and
fraud -- Optimistic expectations and pleasant journeys --
Leaving Europe: packing as the least vital preparation --
18: Standards and double standards -- Effects of
bureaucracy, war, and quotas -- White slavery and
protection versus freedom -- 19: Ocean apart: separation
and its effects -- Male emigration: desertion, bigamy,
and marital strain -- Through pogrom and war: managing
alone -- Part 6: Ties That Bind -- 20: From old and male
to young and female: changes in family relations -- Many
men, fewer women: sex ratios in immigrant culture --
Growing egalitarianism: new husband/wife roles --
Children and parents, sons and daughters -- Immigrant
elderly, stepchildren, and surrogate mothers --
Americanized adults: relationships between siblings -- 21
: Woman's place in the new world -- Late marriage, fewer
children: mother/daughter differences -- Ordained by God
and state: definitions of women -- Maiden names and more:
Americanization and the status of women -- Part 7:
Content And Discontent -- 22: Views of the new world --
Variants in the pace of becoming and American -- Not for
everyone: those who returned to Europe -- Broken dreams:
the disillusioned -- Good country for working people: a
finalization -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Books
and articles -- Archival documents -- Major government
documents -- Index.
520 From the Publisher: From 1840 to 1930 the United States
received the greatest number of immigrants in its history.
Of these immigrants, four of every ten were female. While
much has been written about the American immigrant
experience, the stories of immigrant women have remained
largely untold. Doris Weatherford's Foreign and Female
offers a vivid account of life in America for European
female immigrants, many of whom were our grandmothers and
great-grandmothers. Drawing from the letters and diaries
of immigrant women, the author records what life was like
for female newcomers to America: how they lived, what
they ate, how they worked, how they married, and much,
much more. Delving even further, Foreign and Female
records the inner thoughts and concerns of these women,
revealing their views on a range of subjects, including
marriage, divorce, childbirth, and religion. Although the
experiences of immigrant women differed from region to
region and from situation to situation, Foreign and Female
accurately describes what life was like for a variety of
women - on the farm, in the factory, in the city, out West,
and in the home.
650 0 Women immigrants|zUnited States|xSocial conditions.
650 0 Women immigrants|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Women immigrants|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
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