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Walter D. Kamphoefner - Germans in America

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Walter D. Kamphoefner

Germans in America

2021

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7 Women’s Roles and Women’s Work S. 165-182

„… 7Women’s Roles and Women’s WorkPaid and UnpaidGermany has the reputation as a highly patriarchal …” „… women don’t do that kind of work, and your old dad’s rich; no use of your sweatin’ around a corn-field …” „… journalist touring the South reported in 1875 from New Braunfels women’s roles and women’s work 167how German …”

5 The German-Language Press and German Culture in America S. 107-136

„… work was roundly ignored by German Americans, never serialized in any of their newspapers, and except …” „… the mass immigration of the 1830s, and his work scarcely touched on the immigrant experi-ence. The …” „… journalists and translators rather than novelists, there were a couple of women who figured prominently as …”

A Note on Sources S. 277-286

„… Project: https://www.nappdata.org/napp/.CHAPTER 7: WOMEN’S ROLES AND WOMEN’S WORK: PAID AND UNPAIDOn the …” „… Pennsylvania Press, 1996), and the parallel work of Marcus Häberlein, The Practice of Pluralism …” „… important works on the German background are Mack Walker, Germany and the Emigration, 1816–1885 (Cambridge …”

Preface

„… Culture in America 107 6 German Niches in the American Economy 137 7 Women’s Roles and Women’s Work …” „… translating work across the yearsThis book is dedicated to our children, Sandy and Thomas, to whom we are …” „… , accessible topical histories informed by the latest scholarship and written by scholars who are both leading …”

Introduction S. 1-8

„… the role of women. Though it is often stereo-typed as Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, cooking, and …” „… church), German women had a broader sphere in the world of work, particularly in farm-ing families. In …” „… their mother tongue, and it took until the year 2000 for Spanish to surpass German in the number of …”

9 Race, Culture, and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century S. 209-228

„… now have to work their farm alone, cut off from the world and humanity, enriched from year to year …” „… women, who went on the streets to sing and pray.” The prominence of the Schwein Kopf Lager Bier Hall in …” „… 9Race, Culture, and Politics in the Late Nineteenth CenturyTwo important questions faced German …”

11 The German-American Experience in World War I S. 243-262

„… the other hand, socialists and other left-ists, such as members of the radical Industrial Workers of …” „… , and as many as a dozen of his followers. A native of the Pennsylvania coal country, Rie-gel could read …” „… and understand German well enough to “partly translate” Prager’s farewell note to his parents. So …”

Index S. 287-300

„… ), 132Witten, Johann and Rebecka, 38Das Wochenblatt (Austin, TX), 112, 123Wolf, Simon, 88Women’s suffrage …” „… , 210, 227Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 194Baltimore Journal (Maryland), 133banks, banking, 40, 116 …” „… , schoolingEdwards Law, 96-7, 225-6Eisenhower, Dwight D., 133, 248emigration and colonization societies, 48, 51-56 …”

6 German Niches in the American Economy S. 137-164

„… that of women, which will be treated in the following chapter), and different approaches to …” „… wagon or plow and sow my fields as good as I want and can.” He goes on to comment on the pace of work …” „… don’t need to spin and work flax, here you only have to work by day . . . and no landowner will order …”

10 The Radical Side of German America S. 229-242

„… . Already in the 1840s and 1850s, immigrant workers often drew upon European traditions and experiences to …” „… workers.Karl Marx himself commented on the Civil War from afar, and upon Lincoln’s reelection in 1864 delivered …” „… Germans. By 1890 in Chicago, only one-third of all workers were American born, and of those, the majority …”

3 German Settlement Patterns in Nineteenth-Century America S. 47-74

„… slightly lower proportion of women, possessed rudi-mentary skills of reading and writing (though spelling …” „… , an appeal went out to its “children” in America. And former Wehdemers responded, con-tributing almost …” „… living in Utica, New York, took up a collection and raised $89, which they sent back to the homeland in …”

12 Into the Twilight of Ethnicity S. 263-276

„… . Although he was immediately hired by a civilian con-tractor and put back to work at his old job for higher …” „… 12Into the Twilight of EthnicityGerman Americans since World War IThe intolerance and xenophobia …” „… not its only target. Immigration was restricted first by a literacy test in 1917, and then by …”

4 Religion, Education,and Interethnic Relations S. 75-106

„… , and students who went on to high school were equipped to handle works of Goethe and Schiller that were …” „… month, presented with forty thousand signa-tures (equal to 73 percent of all German-born men, women, and …” „… 4Religion, Education, and Interethnic RelationsGerman Evangelical theologian H. Richard Niebuhr …”

2 Sources and Causes of Nineteenth-Century Emigration S. 25-46

„… anymore, so that you sources and causes of nineteenth-century emigration 35have to do your own work by …” „… German artisans and industrial workers were higher in the 1820s than for the whole next three decades …” „… fall off the earth. . . . We had all sat and laid ourselves stiff, because we couldn’t work anything …”

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Augusta Lynn Bolles - Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

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Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

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3. Women, Work, and Tourism S. 55-68

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Carolyn K. Lesorogol - Conservation and Community in Kenya

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Conservation and Community in Kenya

2022

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Chapter 4: Bead Work Is Women’s Work: Gender and Conservation S. 125-154

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Angelina Chin

Bound to Emancipate

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8 Women Service Workers and Labor Activism S. 213-238

„… 2138❖ ❖Women Service Workers and Labor ActivismAs early as 1923, Lu Xun argued that women must …” „… unnecessary. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, there was a common assumption that women’s service work was …” „… and skills for the job, instead using their looks and social skills Women Service Workers and Labor …”

1 Introduction S. 1-36

„… a way of empowering lower-class women to become workers and citizens. This rhetoric of emancipation …” „… , stupid, and immoral to become citizens. In Guangzhou, although lower-class women were encouraged to work …” „… as similar to domestic labor and therefore suitable for women’s temperament.13 Women sought work in …”

6 Social Control through Charity S. 153-190

„… elements, the “able poor” could be put to work. The PLK used a similar strategy to segregate women and …” „… status. As indicated in the testimonies taken between 1930 and 1935, most women chose marriage or work …” „… [Po Leung] Kuk and wait for her relatives to take her back.45The two women—Cheung Yi and Cheung …”

Conclusion S. 239-248

„… located women’s oppression in a class structure in which men and women workers were at the bottom. Even …” „… on the agenda of both the CCP and the GMD. Women-led class-based movements, such as the telephone …” „… 239ConclusionLower-Class Women, “Emancipation,” and Urban CitizenshipThis study has revisited the …”

7 Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk S. 191-212

„… sexual abuses, not women’s freedom to work, marry, or move in society.Deviant WomenMui tsai and …” „… hygienic work inside the institution. The instructors were responsible for treating ill women and children …” „… tabloids give important details about particular political discourses related to women and the ways …”

4 Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong S. 99-0

„… tip-ping be banned or limited to a minimum.51The Fallen Women—Nü Zhaodai and ProstitutesNewspaper …” „… jobs themselves were immoral and not desirable for “good women.”Highlighting the hardship of young …” „… reformists and feminists, who urged women to participate in social labor, they simul-taneously served as …”

Preface

„… Yingjin ZhangWife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration, edited by Nicola Piper and Mina RocesSocial …” „… Service Workers and Labor Activism 213Conclusion Lower-Class Women, “Emancipation,” and Urban …” „… Anne-Marie BradyMarketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in China, by Anne-Marie …”

2 British Colonialism and Regulating Women in Hong Kong S. 37-70

„… the authorities in dividing them into good and bad women.The colonial interventions between 1841 and …” „… 372❖ ❖British Colonialism and Regulating Women in Hong KongEven though Hong Kong is marginal in the …” „… though women moved across borders and occupational categories, politi-cal participants, with the purpose …”

Works Cited S. 261-272

„… , no. 4 (October 1990): 745–75.Flemming, Leslie A., ed. Women’s Work for Women: Missionaries and Social …” „… . Shanghai: Guangming shudian, 1937.266 Works CitedJohnson, Kay Ann. Women, the Family, and Peasant …” „… : M. E. Sharpe, 1999.Laodong yu funü [Work and Women], 1920s.“The Laws of Hong Kong: Chapter 200 …”

5 The Fenghua Protection Movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935 S. 129-152

„… many regarded as the uncontrollable free-dom of women to explore fashion and opportunities in the …” „… women in the public space alarmed social commenta-tors and the city government; the speed of the change …” „… women for “tainting” social morals (fenghua) by blindly following strange fashions and engaging in …”

3 Emancipating Women from Social Customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou S. 71-98

„… , “Nüzi jianfa yu ren’ga de Guanxi,” Laodong yu funü [Work and Women] 2 (February 20, 1921).33. Although I …” „… missionar-ies accused the Chinese of barbarity because they kept and sold young women as prostitutes or mui tsai …” „… changes in the social and economic system that deprived women of agency. In further contrast to Hong Kong …”

Index S. 273-278

„… Guangdong Women’s Movement), 23 Guangdong–Hong Kong workers’ boycott movement, 26, 105, 217Guangdong region …” „… of women and girls, 9, 25, 38, 203; as abuse, 44, 51, 160, 203; efforts to control, 50, 56, 63, 65n1 …” „… United Front (between the CCP and the GMD), 21, 30, 74 United Front of Women’s Movements, Guangdong, 219 …”

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Egodi Uchendu, Ngozi Edeagu - Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

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Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

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Part II: Women, Work, and Exploitation S. 107-170

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