In search of a common ground
Subtitle: nineteenth and twentieth Century immigrant women in America
By: Kristine Leach.
Publisher: Austin & Winfield
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Women immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.; United States -- Social policy.; United States -- Social conditions.
Other titles: Walking common ground
Description: Over the years, millions of people from around the world left their homes in search of a better life in the United States of America. Most studies of this life-altering experience have focused on its meaning and effects for men. Walking Common Ground reveals the surprising contrasts which show up in this story when the focus shifts to women.

Comparing women's accounts of nineteenth century immigration taken from letters, diaries and autobiographies with extensive in-depths interviews of twentieth century women from every corner of the globe, Kristine Leach uncovers an unexpected commonality of experience for immigrant women, in spite of enormous differences in time, place and circumstance.

Going beyond the recitation of immigration statistics, Leach explores the problems of child rearing in a culture with different standards of behavior, the adjustments to new freedoms and responsibilities and the orientation to new types of housing, food, customs and morals. She develops her account through the words and life of the women under study, placing her theoretical account in its concrete reality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-80).