Immigrant Women in the United States: A Selectively Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography

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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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Although general bibliographies on immigration may include entries on women, researchers interested in women immigrants will welcome this work. The only previous work on the subject, Francesco Cordasco's The Immigrant Woman in North America, concentrates on European immigrants and excludes fiction and other belles lettres. 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. One anomaly in the indexing has some of the subject index (such as Family' and Work' ) duplicate the broad subject chapters. This work should be included in both public and academic libraries serving populations interested in women's lives.-Choice
Covers scholarly secondary source materials in English, including books, articles, and dissertations. The publications are arranged by topic, with separate chapters devoted to general works, migation, family life, work, collective action, women's bodies and minds, cultural and generational change, and biography.-Reference & Research Book News
Immigrant Women in the United States: A Selectively Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography is a guide to English-language source material on studies pertaining to women who immigrated to the United States and their U.S.-born daughters. Compiled by Donna Gabaccia, the bibliography covers writings on women ranging from European-born nuns to Third World refugees. Gabbacia's bibliography is arranged by area of study. Chapters list works which examine such areas as family, body, mind, cultural change, and biography. A chapter also covers fiction about immigrant women, such as Rose Feld's 1943 novel Sophie Halenczik, American, a story of a Czech widow set in Connecticut.-American Libraries
"Covers scholarly secondary source materials in English, including books, articles, and dissertations. The publications are arranged by topic, with separate chapters devoted to general works, migation, family life, work, collective action, women's bodies and minds, cultural and generational change, and biography."-Reference & Research Book News
"Immigrant Women in the United States: A Selectively Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography is a guide to English-language source material on studies pertaining to women who immigrated to the United States and their U.S.-born daughters. Compiled by Donna Gabaccia, the bibliography covers writings on women ranging from European-born nuns to Third World refugees. Gabbacia's bibliography is arranged by area of study. Chapters list works which examine such areas as family, body, mind, cultural change, and biography. A chapter also covers fiction about immigrant women, such as Rose Feld's 1943 novel Sophie Halenczik, American, a story of a Czech widow set in Connecticut."-American Libraries
"Although general bibliographies on immigration may include entries on women, researchers interested in women immigrants will welcome this work. The only previous work on the subject, Francesco Cordasco's The Immigrant Woman in North America, concentrates on European immigrants and excludes fiction and other belles lettres. 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. One anomaly in the indexing has some of the subject index (such as Family' and Work' ) duplicate the broad subject chapters. This work should be included in both public and academic libraries serving populations interested in women's lives."-Choice

Author Bio

DONNA GABACCIA is Associate Professor of History at Mercy College. She is the author of two books, Militants and Migrants, and From Sicily to Elizabeth Street, and numerous articles.