While European immigrant women in the U.S. as a group have received more academic attention than women from other regions of the world, and more than native wom

Sections include the immigrants' physical and spiritual well- being; moral ambivalences; changes in domestic life; contributions to their new society; and statu

Describes the daily experiences of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York City.

This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a sociologist,