 | Peasant Maids, City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America Subjects: Women immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago; Women -- Europe Northern -- Social conditions; Europe -- Rural conditions -- 19th century; Europe Northern -- Emigration and immigration; From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women , a truly... Christiane Harzig is Assistant Professor of North American History at the University of Bremen. Marianne Knothe serves on the City Council of Warsaw. Margareta Matovic is a historian and historical demographer working in Stockholm. Deirdre Mageean is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, Orono. Monika Blaschke has just completed her dissertation at the University of Bremen on women in the German-American women's press. |
