On the Homefront and in the Workplace: Integrating Immigrant Women into Feminist Discourse

This article focuses on the experiences of Dominican immigrant women in the United States. It examines ways in which research with immigrant women challenges certain claims advanced by feminist theorists regarding the nature of unpaid domestic work, the relationship between waged work and women's emancipation, and the interdependence between struggles in the family and factory. Attention is drawn to traces of essentialism in the ways in which several middle-class feminists have characterized working-class women. [women, immigration, Dominicans, United States, feminism]