Puerto Rican women's history new perspectives
editors, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Linda C. Delgado.
- Armonk, N.Y. M.E. Sharpe c1998.
- x, 262 p. 24 cm.
- Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women's history in Puerto Rican historiography : the last thirty years / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Puerto Rican women workers in the twentieth century : a historical appraisal of the literature / Altagracia Ortiz -- "Quién trabajará?" : domestic workers, urban slaves, and the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Virgins, whores, and martyrs : prostitution in the colony, 1898-1919 / José Flores Ramos -- Gender and the decomposition of the cigar-making craft in Puerto Rico, 1899-1934 / Juan José Baldrich -- Halfhearted solidarity : women workers and the women's suffrage movement in Puerto Rico during the 1920s / María de Fátima Barceló-Miller -- Literacy, class, and sexuality in the debate on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico during the 1920s / Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz -- Rufa Concepcíon Fernández : the role of gender in the migration process / Linda C. Delgado -- 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 -- Labor migrants or submissive wives : competing narratives of Puerto Rican women in the post-World War II era / Carmen Teresa Whalen -- Political empowerment of Puerto Rican women, 1952-1956 / Mary Frances Gallart.
Women in politics--History.--Puerto Rico Working class women--Social conditions.--Puerto Rico Women--History.--Puerto Rico Women--Employment--History.--Puerto Rico