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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki |
| Title, Analytic | Gender and Self-Representation in the Letters of Nineteenth-Century Rural German-Speakers |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2002 |
| Volume ID | 37 |
| Location in Work | 91-114 |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| Abstract | Examines how gender roles may have influenced the ways in which immigrants represented themselves in letters written to their homeland. In general, men who were successful in their new lives tended to write of their success "in a manner that may seem overbearing to us today," while women were "sensitive to the ways in which they would be 'read' by the recipients of their letters," and they sought to maintain positive contact with their families in Germany. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Women/ German Americans -- Illinois/ 19th century/ History/ Farm life/ Social life and customs/ Rural life & conditions/ Letters/ Ethnic identity |