Crossing borders, claiming a nation
Subtitle: a history of Argentine Jewish women, 1880-1955
By: Sandra McGee Deutsch.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780822346579; 9780822346494
Subjects: Jewish women -- Argentina -- History -- 19th century; Jewish women -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "If the water is sweet" : Jewish women in the countryside; title: "I worked, I struggled" : Jewish women in Buenos Aires; title: "A point of connection" : pathways into the professions; title: "Not a novice" : prostitutes; title: "A bad reputation" : family and sexuality; title: "What surrounds us dissatisfies us" : leftists and union members through the 1930s; title: "A dike against reaction" : contesting anti-semitism, fascism, and Peronism; title: "We the women have to do something" : philanthropies and Zionism.