From the Other Side

DONNA GABACCIA is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of From Sicily to Elizabeth Street, Militants and Migrants, the bibliography Immigrant Women in the United States and editor of Seeking Common Ground.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Coming to the United States1. Where is the Other Side?2. The Women of the Other Side3. From Minority to MajorityPart II: Foreign and Female: Continuities in Immigrant Life4. Lives of Labor5. All Her Kin6. Working TogetherPart III: Changing: Class and Culture in the Twentieth Century7. Middle-Class Immigrants8. Preservation and InnovationConclusionNotesBibliographical EssayIndex

"From the Other Side is a tour-de-force interpretive synthesis of a vast literature on the relationship between gender and immigrant experience in the United States." International Migration Review "The last twenty years have seen an explosion in research on immigrant women, yet a systematic synthesis of this wealth of scholarship has been missing from the literature. Donna Gabaccia's book stunningly fills this gap, capturing the complex global story that has been the history of women's immigration to the United States in the years from 1820 to 1990." American Historical Review " ... A readable, lively integration of recent literature on immigration as well as new approaches to understanding race, gender, and ethnicity." Labor History " ... This is a most welcome contribution to the history and sociology of American immigrant life." Choice "This volume will convince skeptics not only that the historiography of women's immigration is already vast, but that the field is ripe for further inquiry and research." Western Historical Quarterly "Donna Gabaccia has tackled a monumental undertaking and has provided the scholarly community with a trove of rich and provocative material." Reviews in American History "An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field." Virginia Yans McLaughlin "Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research ... " John Bodnar "... This masterful synthesis advances our understanding of the gendered experience of immigration during nearly two centuries ..." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "The book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in immigration history. But it will prove particularly useful in the classroom ..." The Annals of Iowa