Gendered contexts : Norway and migration -- Gender in Norway in the period of mass emigration / Elisabeth Lonnå -- Norwegian immigration and women / Odd S. Lovoll -- Creating gendered Norwegian American communities -- Women, work, and community in rural Norwegian America, 1840-1920 / Lori Ann Lahlum -- Finding their way in the city : Norwegian immigrant women and their daughters in urban areas, 1880s-1920s / David C. Mauk -- Textile production in Norwegian America / Laurann Gilbertson -- Home, health, and Christian respectability : Norwegian immigrant women in family and community health / Ann M. Legreid -- Land taking at Spirit Lake: the competing logics of Norwegian and Dakota women, 1900 / Karen V. Hansen -- Constructing gendered identities and meanings -- The "hungry heroine" in Norwegian American fiction / Ingrid K. Urberg -- Collective identities in life writings of Norwegian immigrant women / Betty A. Bergland
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