From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990An impressive achievement by a scholar well versed in the field. Virginia Yans McLaughlin Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research, Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons between these female newcomers in both the past and the present and between the experiences of the foreign born and other minorities in American society. John Bodnar This long needed study of women from the other side examines the experience of women immigrants as they