| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Women's History in Puerto Rican Historiography: The Last Thirty Years; 2. Puerto Rican Women Workers in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Appraisal of the Literature; 3. "¿Quién trabajará?": Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico; 4. Virgins, Whores, and Martyrs: Prostitution in the Colony, 1898-1919; 5. Gender and the Decomposition of the Cigar-Making Craft in Puerto Rico, 1899-1934 |
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6. Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women's Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the 1920s7. Literacy, Class, and Sexuality in the Debate on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico During the 1920s; 8. Rufa Concepción Fernández: The Role of Gender in the Migration Process; 9. Gender, Work, and Institutional Change in the Early Stage of Industrialization: The Case of the Women's Bureau and the Home Needlework Industry in Puerto Rico, 1940-1952; 10. Labor Migrants or Submissive Wives: Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era |
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11. Political Empowerment of Puerto Rican Women, 1952-1956Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Women -- Employment -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Working class women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions
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Women -- Political activity -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Women
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Women -- Employment
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Women -- Political activity
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Working class women -- Social conditions
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Puerto Rico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matos Rodríguez, Félix V., 1962- editor.
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Delgado, Linda C., 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315701356 |
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1315701359 |
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