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Title:

Norwegian American women : migration, communities, and identities / edited by Betty A. Bergland and Lori Ann Lahlum.

Publisher:

Minnesota Historical Society Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Norwegian American women--History.
Norwegian American women--Social conditions.
Norwegian American women--Economic conditions.
Norwegian Americans in literature.
Women immigrants--United States--History.
Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
Women immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.
Women immigrants in literature.
United States--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Bergland, Betty A., 1943-
Lahlum, Lori Ann, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Gendered contexts : Norway and migration -- Gender in Norway in the period of mass emigration / Elisabeth Lønnå -- Norwegian immigration and women / Odd S. Lovoll -- Creating gendered Norwegian American communities -- Women, work, and community in rural Norwegian America, 1840-1920 / Lori Ann Lahlum -- Finding their way in the city : Norwegian immigrant women and their daughters in urban areas, 1880s-1920s / David C. Mauk -- Textile production in Norwegian America / Laurann Gilbertson -- Home, health, and Christian respectability : Norwegian immigrant women in family and community health / Ann M. Legreid -- Land taking at Spirit Lake: the competing logics of Norwegian and Dakota women, 1900 / Karen V. Hansen -- Constructing gendered identities and meanings -- The "hungry heroine" in Norwegian American fiction / Ingrid K. Urberg -- Collective identities in life writings of Norwegian immigrant women / Betty A. Berglan.

ISBN:

0873518330 (e-book)
9780873518338 (e-book)
0873518209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780873518208 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)695683584

LCCN:

2010052796

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

NDPD953 -- Forest City Public Library (Forest City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)