Felix Matos-Rodriguez, Linda Delgado

Puerto Rican Women's History

New Perspectives: New Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780765602459
• ISBN-10: 0765602458
• Artikelnr.: 21441095

Autorenporträt

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Linda C. Delgado

Inhaltsangabe

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;