Making Gender Matter in a Transnational World

• Published in: Journal of American ethnic history Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 31 - 39
• Main Author: Reeder, Linda
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Champaign University of Illinois Press 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Analysis; Anthropologists; Change agents; Class politics; Cultural identity; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic groups; Ethnic identity; Ethnic Studies; Ethnicity; Female roles; Females; Feminism; Forum on Donna Gabaccia, Transnational Scholar; Gabaccia, Donna R; Gender; Gender identity; Gender roles; Historians; History; History instruction; Human migration; Husbands; Immigrants; Immigration; Interdisciplinary aspects; International borders; International migration; Jewish migration; Labor migration; Laws, regulations and rules; Love; Masculinity; Men; Migrants; Migration; Noncitizens; Personal experiences; Political migration; Race; Social classes; Social networks; Sociology; Transnationalism; Wives; Women; Womens studies; Working mothers; Works; United States
• ISSN: 0278-5927; 1936-4695
• DOI: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.1.0031

Second wave feminism, with its insistence on considering woman as historical subjects and agents of change in ways that challenged long-standing disciplinary conventions regarding periodization and historical significance, invigorated studies of migrant women. Throughout the 1970s, sociologists, his...