With its inclusive view of American history, Created Equal, Brief Edition, Volume One, emphasizes social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country--while delivering the basics of political and economic history. In this streamlined version of Created Equal, the authors ...
Mexican Americans today are well established in the US, but it was an arduous century-long struggle-and the key participants in this effort have been the women. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, a mining town, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks (including fictional ...
"Unequal Sisters" has become a beloved and classic reader in American Women's History. It provides an unparalleled resource for understanding women's history in the United States today. When it was first published in 1990, it revolutionized the field with its broad multicultural approach, and continued, through its next two editions, to emphasize ...
First published in 1990, "Unequal Sisters" transformed the landscape of women's history in the United States, taking a broad, multicultural view which brought together the best in women's and feminist history. This second edition has been revised and expanded, incorporating 18 new essays that comprise some interesting new work in the field. This ...
With its sweeping, inclusive view of American history, Created Equal emphasizes social history--including the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country--while delivering the familiar chronology of political and economic history. By integrating the stories of a variety of groups and ...
Since the publication of its first edition in 1990, Unequal Sisters has been considered one of the most influential and groundbreaking works in the field of women's studies. Bringing together a broad, multicultural view, it presents the best scholarship available on the issues of race, ethnicity, region, sexuality and class in its attempt to ...
Women have been the mainstay of the gruelling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is a collective biography. Thousands of Mexicana and Mexican American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skilfully managed ...
In recent years the study of western history has been transformed by scholarship on the actual experiences of the women who settled the West. The essays gathered here, first presented in a 1984 conference sponsored by the South-west Institute for Research on Women, analyse and interpret this new body of research. Each essay is accompanied by ...
Using region as a category of analysis, this pioneering collection explores the reciprocal relationship between Latinas and location. In highlighting the multiple ways in which Latinas grapple with their identity, the contributors significantly increase our understanding of how identity is created, negotiated, claimed, and remembered. This ...
An extraordinary exploration of Latinas in the United States from the 1800s to the present, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of fifteen remarkable individuals who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. This anthology profiles Victoria Reid, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Maria ...
In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political. They have entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of ...
Exploring the untold stories of Hull-House arts programs in the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns, "Pots of Promise" also addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago, and the history of Hull-House in the years when Jane Addams increasingly turned her attention beyond the settlement house she had co-founded. ...
Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, "American Dreaming, Global Realities" explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as ...
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