"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket.
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In this study the author examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States. By using a wide variety of sources the impact of industrialization on motherhood, family, wage work, and female civic identity is explored and also…
"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket.
"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket
The very question of "what do Jews think about the goyim" has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. This critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gen…
"In Christian Science on Trial, historian Rennie B. Schoepflin shows how Christian Science healing became a viable alternative to medicine at the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists did not simply evangelize for their religious beliefs; they engaged in a healing …
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? [This book] is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for ent…
"Sin in the City examines three urban revivals in turn-of-the-century Chicago to show how revivalists negotiated that era's perceived racial, sexual, and class threats. While most studies of this movement have focused on its male leaders and their interactions with society, Thek…
