Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Linda C. Delgado

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Women’s History in Puerto Rican Historiography: The Last Thirty Years, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez; Chapter 2 Puerto Rican Women Workers in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Appraisal of the Literature, Altagracia Ortiz; Chapter 3 “¿Quién trabajará?”: Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez; Chapter 4 Virgins, Whores, and Martyrs: Prostitution in the Colony, 1898–1919, José Flores Ramos; Chapter 5 Gender and the Decomposition of the Cigar-Making Craft in Puerto Rico, 1899–1934, Juan José Baldrich; Chapter 6 Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the 1920s, María de Fátima Barceló-Miller; Chapter 7 Literacy, Class, and Sexuality in the Debate on Women’s Suffrage in Puerto Rico During the 1920s, Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz; Chapter 8 Rufa Concepción Fernández: The Role of Gender in the Migration Process, Linda C. Delgado; Chapter 9 Gender, Work, and Institutional Change in the Early Stage of Industrialization: The Case of the Women’s Bureau and the Home Needlework Industry in Puerto Rico, 1940–1952, Félix O. Muñiz-Mas; Chapter 10 Labor Migrants or Submissive Wives: Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era, Carmen Teresa Whalen; Chapter 11 Political Empowerment of Puerto Rican Women, 1952–1956, Mary Frances Gallart;