Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives: New Perspectives

by Felix Matos-Rodriguez, Linda Delgado

Overview

A survey of the topics in gender and history of Puerto Rican women. Organized chronologically and covering the 19th and 20th centuries, it deal with issues of slavery, emancipation, wage work, women and politics, women's suffrage, industrialization, migration and Puerto Rican women in New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317461593
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/15/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Linda C. Delgado

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Women’s History in Puerto Rican Historiography: The Last Thirty Years, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez; Chapter 2 Puerto Rican Women Workers in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Appraisal of the Literature, Altagracia Ortiz; Chapter 3 “¿Quién trabajará?”: Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez; Chapter 4 Virgins, Whores, and Martyrs: Prostitution in the Colony, 1898–1919, José Flores Ramos; Chapter 5 Gender and the Decomposition of the Cigar-Making Craft in Puerto Rico, 1899–1934, Juan José Baldrich; Chapter 6 Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the 1920s, María de Fátima Barceló-Miller; Chapter 7 Literacy, Class, and Sexuality in the Debate on Women’s Suffrage in Puerto Rico During the 1920s, Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz; Chapter 8 Rufa Concepción Fernández: The Role of Gender in the Migration Process, Linda C. Delgado; Chapter 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, Félix O. Muñiz-Mas; Chapter 10 Labor Migrants or Submissive Wives: Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era, Carmen Teresa Whalen; Chapter 11 Political Empowerment of Puerto Rican Women, 1952–1956, Mary Frances Gallart;