ON THE HOMEFRONT AND IN THE WORKPLACE - INTEGRATING IMMIGRANT WOMEN INTO FEMINIST DISCOURSE

This article focuses on the experiences of Dominican immigrant women i n the United States. It examines ways in which research with immigrant women challenges certain claims advanced by feminist theorists regard ing the nature of unpaid domestic work, the relationship between waged work and women's emancipation, and the interdependence between strugg les in the family and factory. Attention is drawn to traces of essenti alism in the ways in which several middle-class feminists have charact erized working-class women.