Although general bibliographies on immigration may include entries
on women, researchers interested in women immigrants will welcome
this work. . . . Gabaccia's study includes more than 2,000 entries
for books, journal articles, and PhD dissertations divided into
chapters on broad genres or subjects: bibliography, general works,
migration, family, work (meaning earning wages), working together
(meaning collective community action), body, mind, cultural change,
biography, autobiography, and fiction. Access is further enhanced
by author, person, group, and subject indexes. . . . This work
should be included in both public and academic libraries serving
populations interested in women's lives. Choice Increasing
awareness of cultural diversity, the growth of women's studies, and
the arrival of this country's third wave of immigrants in the 1970s
and 1980s have all contributed to strong recent interest in female
immigrants. Immigrant Women in the United States is a
multidisciplinary bibliography of women--including mothers and
their daughters--who voluntarily crossed a national boundary to
live or work in the United States. It covers scholarly secondary
source materials in English--books, articles, and dissertations.
Bibliographies, autobiographies, and fiction are dealt with in
separate chapters. In an effort to encourage interdisciplinary
research, the publications are arranged by topic, with separate
chapters devoted to general works, migration, family life, work,
collective action, women's bodies and minds, cultural and
generational change, and biography. In addition, it is the only
bibliography on the subject of immigrant women that systematically
reviews literature on notable women of foreign birth and the
sizable autobiographical, biographical, oral, historical, and
fictional literature on immigrant women. Immigrant Women in the
United States is only the second bibliography on this subject to
appear within the past five years. It differs from that earlier
work in the scope and depth of its coverage, including recently
published works and dissertations appearing before 1989. It will be
an important addition to library collections in women's studies and
immigration studies and a valuable reference tool for historians
and social scientists.
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