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Peasant Maids, City Women - From the European Countryside to Urban America (Paperback, New)
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Peasant Maids, City Women - From the European Countryside to Urban America (Paperback, New)
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From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all
immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences
were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural
forces. 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.In concise
social histories of four European rural cultures, the authors
emphasize the crucial effects of gender. They explore the contrast
between each regional culture of origin and the urban experience of
ethnic communities in Chicago. The concept of assimilation, they
suggest, involves two different dynamics. In the initial phase,
adaptation, the new environment demands major changes of incoming
immigrants to meet basic needs. The second dynamic, acculturation,
involves changes for immigrants and also for the new culture with
which they interact."
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