Monday, June 26, 2006
Stand on your head
and stuff cotton in your ears for about 15 minutes to prepare for reading Suzanne M. Sinke's essay on "Gender and Immigration" in A Companion to American Immigration (Blackwell, 2006), my choice for vacation reading at the lake and my companion at the coffee shop this morning. From "women used their consumption roles to support the war (i.e. the Revolutionary War)" to "polygyny was a more widespread idea than monogamy" to citing herself in journals you've never heard of (so they should spell out the acronym), this essay has it all.
Sinke is an associate professor of history at Florida State University and seems to write about Dutch women and immigration. I haven't followed up on this hunch, but her one book is probably her PhD thesis tuned up and tweaked.
Perhaps this is Blackwell's template for its "Companions to American History" series, but I'm very surprised to see all the essayists relying so heavily on secondary and tertiary sources in the references, (NYT, Le Monde, Civil War History). The primary sources do exist (like United Nations studies), but they are extremely difficult to sort out in parentheses next to parenthetical phrases.
Sinke is an associate professor of history at Florida State University and seems to write about Dutch women and immigration. I haven't followed up on this hunch, but her one book is probably her PhD thesis tuned up and tweaked.
Perhaps this is Blackwell's template for its "Companions to American History" series, but I'm very surprised to see all the essayists relying so heavily on secondary and tertiary sources in the references, (NYT, Le Monde, Civil War History). The primary sources do exist (like United Nations studies), but they are extremely difficult to sort out in parentheses next to parenthetical phrases.
# posted by Norma : 6/26/2006 07:42:00 AM
