Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
In: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. A Room of One's Own: Managing Spaces, Lives, and Laws in Residential Care Work -- 2. Practicing Abundance: Immigrant Women and the Challenge of Consumption -- 3. Strong Mothers, Great Lovers: Sexuality in Emigration -- 4. Getting Serious: Courtship, Love, and (Maybe) Marriage in Emigration -- 5. Proper, Respectable Places: The Arduous Construction of Community Institutions -- Conclusion: From the Detritus of the Soviet Union into a New Social World -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: How I Conducted My Study -- Notes -- References -- Index of Participant Pseudonyms -- Index of Subjects.