Norwegian American women
Subtitle: migration, communities, and identities
By: edited by Betty A. Bergland and Lori Ann Lahlum
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780873518208; 9780873518338
Subjects: Norwegian American women; Women immigrants; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Norwegian Americans in literature; Emigration and immigration; Women immigrants in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gendered contexts : Norway and migration; title: Gender in Norway in the period of mass emigration / Elisabeth Lønnå; title: Norwegian immigration and women / Odd S. Lovoll; title: Creating gendered Norwegian American communities; title: Women, work, and community in rural Norwegian America, 1840-1920 / Lori Ann Lahlum; title: Finding their way in the city : Norwegian immigrant women and their daughters in urban areas, 1880s-1920s / David C. Mauk; title: Textile production in Norwegian America / Laurann Gilbertson; title: Home, health, and Christian respectability : Norwegian immigrant women in family and community health / Ann M. Legreid; title: Land taking at Spirit Lake: the competing logics of Norwegian and Dakota women, 1900 / Karen V. Hansen; title: Constructing gendered identities and meanings; title: The "hungry heroine" in Norwegian American fiction / Ingrid K. Urberg; title: Collective identities in life writings of Norwegian immigrant women / Betty A. Bergland.