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| Introduction | |
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| Why They Came | |
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| About a Wheat Field and a Bowl of Barley Porridge | |
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| "Factory Girls" | |
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| "My Education and Aspirations Demanded More" | |
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| "He Has the Right to Command You" | |
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| "I Remember How Scared I Was" | |
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| "I Am Alive to Tell You This Story �" | |
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| Surviving in a New Land | |
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| Issei Women: "Picture Brides" in America | |
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| "I Escaped with My Life" | |
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| "Urbanization Without Breakdown" | |
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| The Diary of a Rent Striker: "Harlem and Hope" | |
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| "Paths upon Water" | |
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| Strategies for Growing Old: Basha Is a Survivor | |
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| Work | |
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| "Better We Glean Than Our Children Starve" | |
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| A Physician in the "First True 'Woman's Hospital' in the World" | |
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| "The Duties of the Housewife Remain Manifold and Various" | |
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| "With Respect and Feelings": Voices of West Indian Child Care and Domestic Workers in New York City | |
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| The Immigrant Woman and Her Job: Agnes D., Mrs. E., Angelina, Minnie, Louise M., and Theresa M. | |
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| "I Consider Myself a 'Theater Worker' �" | |
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| Family | |
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| "She Will Deny Herself Innocent Enjoyments": Dutiful Irish Daughters | |
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| Unmarried Mothers | |
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| Syrian Women in Chicago: "New Responsibilities � New Skills" | |
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| "Once You Marry Someone It Is Forever" | |
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| The Vine and the Fruit | |
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| "We Want to Give a Complete Picture of Who We Are" "Palm Sunday 1981" | |
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| A Family Disrupted: "Shikata Ga Nai "-This Cannot Be Helped" | |
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| Community Life | |
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| "If One Could Help Another" | |
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| "Let Us Join Hands": The Polish Women's Alliance | |
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| Rosa and the Chicago Commons: "How Can I Not Love America?" | |
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| "The Free Vacation House," | |
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| "I Bridge a Gap Between Two Cultures": Lyu-Volckhausen, Advocate for the Korean Community | |
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| "People Who Do This Kind of Work Are in Such Danger of Burnout": Judy Baca, "Urban Artist" | |
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| Education | |
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| "The Lessons Which Most Influenced My Life � Came from My Parents" | |
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| "An Impossible Dream": The Struggle for Higher Education | |
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| The Stubborn Twig: "My Double Dose of Schooling" | |
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| "I Am a Housewife": English Lessons for Vietnamese Women | |
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| "Glad That I Am the Future" | |
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| Unfulfilled Aspirations: "Never Used the Brush and Ink" | |
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| Social and Political Activists | |
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| At the End of the Santa Fe Trail | |
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| "This Is Law, But Where Is the Justice of It" | |
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| "In Memoriam-American Democracy" | |
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| The March of the Mill Children | |
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| Fasting for Suffrage: "We Don't Want Other Women Ever to Have to Do This Over Again" | |
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| "Black Women of the World � Push Forward" | |
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| "Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years": The Farah Strike | |
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| Daughters and Granddaughters | |
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| A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe | |
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| The Parish and the Hill | |
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| "This Is Selina" | |
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| "We Can Begin to Move toward Sisterhood" | |
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| Join My Struggle: "A Poem for Marshall" | |
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| Asian-American Women and Feminism: "Gender Equality � Is Not the Exclusive Agenda" | |
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| Generations of Women | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |