Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean)

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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. Puerto Rican Women's History Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Notes 1 Women's History in Puerto Rican Historiography: The Last Thirty Years Women and Historical Writing: 1900-1960s Women and the Nueva Historia Women's History and Puerto Rican Studies Women's History in the 1980s and 1990s: Consolidation and Challenges The History of Puerto Rican Women in the United States: 1980s-1990s Where Do We Go from Here? Notes 2 Puerto Rican Women Workers in the Twentieth Century: A Historical Appraisal of the Literature Introduction The Literature on Women Workers under Early Colonialism The Literature on Women Migrant Workers The Literature on Capitalist Restructuring and Puerto Rican Women The Literature on Women Workers and Operation Bootstrap The Literature on Women's Recent Labor Struggles Conclusion Notes 3 "¿Quién trabajará?": Domestic Workers, Urban Slaves, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico Domestic Work in the Capital Domestic Work and Urban Slavery in the Abolitionist Debate The Labor "Crisis" and the Struggle to Control the Supply of Domestics in San Juan Beneficence—Social and Labor Control Domestic Workers and Their Conflicts with City Officials Conclusion Notes Abbreviations 4 Virgins, Whores, and Martyrs: Prostitution in the Colony, 1898-1919 Introduction Prostitution Faces the Changing of the Guard The First Phase: 1898-1917 The Second Phase: "The Porto Rican Experiment, 1917-1919" Conclusion Notes 5 Gender and the Decomposition of the Cigar-Making Craft in Puerto Rico, 1899-1934 Women in Tobacco Manufacture Decomposition of the Cigar-Making Craft Teamwork and Gender Salaries and Gender Trade Unions Conclusions Notes 6 Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women's Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the ... Introduction The Suffragist Social League The Breakup of the Suffragist Social League The Popular Feminist Association of Women Workers of Puerto Rico Halfhearted Solidarity: The Social League and Its Relation to the Popular Feminist Association of Wo... Epilogue Notes 7 Literacy, Class, and Sexuality in the Debate on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico During the 1920s Women's Suffrage Organizations in Puerto Rico and the Approval of a Limited Women's Suffrage Bill Women's Suffrage as a "Constant Danger" Creeping Modernization/Modernism and Creepy Modernity Collapsing the "Woman's" Body and the Political Body into Social Disorder Women's Suffrage as Political Transvestism: Ladies of "Exquisite Customs" and Impotent Legislators "At the Same Level as Any Woman of the Street" Notes 8 Rufa Concepción Fernández: The Role of Gender in the Migration Process July 26, 1923 March 5, 1924 "5/6/25" July 14, 1925 Notes 9 Gender, Work, and Institutional Change in the Early Stage of Industrialization: The Case of the Wo... Introduction First Attempts: The Bureau for Women and Children in Industry, 1933-1941 The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Populism and the Populist State The Industrial Supervision Service: Precursor to the Women's Bureau, 1942-45 The Women's Bureau, 1945-52 Modernization, Gender, and the Women's Bureau The Women's Bureau, Gender Politics, and the State Notes 10 Labor Migrants or Submissive Wives: Competing Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World ... Memories of Migration Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in Puerto Rico Narratives of Puerto Rican Women in the Continental United States Conclusions Notes 11 Political Empowerment of Puerto Rican Women, 1952-1956 From Female Impersonations to Empowerment Toward Visibility of Puerto Rican Women in Politics The Role of Women in the Popular Democratic Party A Conciliatory Candidate Empowerment of Guayama's Women Toward the Primary Act Conclusion Notes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z About the Editors and Contributors