TY  - GEN
AU  -  Keough, Willeen G.,
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  The slender thread: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 
T2  -  ACLS Humanities E-Book
PY  - 2009///, c2006
CY  -  New York
PB  -  Columbia University Press
KW  -  Women immigrants
KW  -  Newfoundland and Labrador
KW  -  Avalon Peninsula
KW  -  History
KW  -  18th century
KW  -  19th century
KW  -  Irish
KW  -  Social con ditions
KW  -  Economic c onditions
KW  -  Women
KW  -  Ireland
KW  -  Emigration and immigration
KW  -  Avalon Peninsula (N.L.)
N1  -  Caption title ; description based on screen of 2009-03-01;  Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org;  Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfou ndland, 2002;  Includes bibliography;  1. Picking up the thread : locating Irish Newfoundland women in the narrative of migration and settlement -- 2. The slender thread cast off : migration and reception in Newfoundland -- 3. Ciphering ciphers : tr acing Irish women on the southern Avalon -- 4. "A good, hard-working st ump of a girl" : Irish women's work and the construction of identity on the southern Avalon -- 5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them " : Irish Newfounland women and informal power in family and community- - 6. "Humbel" petitioners and "litigeous" lersons : southern Avalon wom en and encounters with formal justice-- 7. "Whilst grass grows or water run" : testation practices on the southern Avalon -- 8. "To fix [their ] character ... in virtue and innocence" : the regulation of Irish wome n's sexuality on the southern Avalon -- 9. The "Other" woman -- 10. The slender thread cast on;  Access restricted to authorized subscribers only;  Electronic text (HTML) and image data (JPG)
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99011
ER  -