Puerto Rican women's history :  new perspectives / 
editors, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Linda C. Delgado. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 262 pages). 
 - Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean .
 - Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Women's history in Puerto Rican historiography : the last thirty years /  Puerto Rican women workers in the twentieth century : a historical appraisal of the literature /  "Quién trabajará?" : domestic workers, urban slaves, and the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico /  Virgins, whores, and martyrs : prostitution in the colony, 1898-1919 /  Gender and the decomposition of the cigar-making craft in Puerto Rico, 1899-1934 /  Halfhearted solidarity : women workers and the women's suffrage movement in Puerto Rico during the 1920s /  Literacy, class, and sexuality in the debate on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico during the 1920s /  Rufa Concepcíon Fernández : the role of gender in the migration process /  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 /  Labor migrants or submissive wives : competing narratives of Puerto Rican women in the post-World War II era /  Political empowerment of Puerto Rican women, 1952-1956 /  Félix V. Matos Rodríguez --  Altagracia Ortiz --  Félix V. Matos Rodríguez --  José Flores Ramos --  Juan José Baldrich --  María de Fátima Barceló-Miller --  Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz --  Linda C. Delgado --  Félix O. Muñiz-Mas --  Carmen Teresa Whalen --  Mary Frances Gallart. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585190291 9780585190297 9781317461593 1317461592 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--History.--Puerto Rico<br/>Women--Employment--History.--Puerto Rico<br/>Working class women--Social conditions.--Puerto Rico<br/>Women--Political activity--History.--Puerto Rico<br/>Women in politics--History.--Puerto Rico
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1522  / .P84 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4/097295