Mary Patrice Erdmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 217236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Patrice Erdmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Patrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Erdmans |
| SIGNATURE | ERDMANS M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
Of Migrant Decisions and Men: Anna Maksymiuk Kieturakis, Translator, Wife, Mother
Many theories of migration (e.g., circular migration theory, the target income theory, the neoclassical economic theory) examine external factors (e.g., wages, opportunities, assets) to explain migrant decisions to leave, to stay, and to return. What we overlook in these economic rational actor models is an understanding of how migration decisions are embedded in social relationships. One contemporary migrant, Anna Maksymiuk Kieturakis, who was p…
Jewish Threads in a Polish Life Story
This article presents the life story of a Pole with Jewish ancestry who came to the United States in the 1980s as a political refugee after the imposition of martial law and returned to Poland in the 1990s after the collapse of Communism. I explore the meaning of Jewishness in his social self, constructed and narrated within the changing sociopolitical and geographic contexts of Wrocław, New York, Mississippi, and Warsaw
Polish Mother
The self-publishing book market exploded in the twenty-first century, and by 2020 roughly 1.7 million books were self-published in the US.1 What value do these books hold for scholars? As an editor, I often hesitate (or refuse) to review them, and when I do, I tend to review with the same critical eye that I use for academic books, meaning I focus on such things as quality of sources and documentation, verisimilitude, contributions to the literat…
Memoirs, Biographies, and Other Accounts of the Polish Diaspora
Other| October 01 2020 Memoirs, Biographies, and Other Accounts of the Polish Diaspora Małgorzata Czermińska, The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge, translated by Jean Ward (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019). 347 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-67427-7.Stephen W. C. Gnyś, First Kills: The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś, illustrated by John D. Bindon (Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2017). 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-61200-55…
Gender and Family in Polish American Studies
Research Article| April 01 2020 Gender and Family in Polish American Studies Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans is a professor of sociology at Case Western Reserve University. Her areas of interest include immigration and ethnicity, with a focus on contemporary Polish migration to the United States. She is the author of Opposite Poles (1998), The Grasinski Girls (2005), and On Becoming a Teen Mom (2015), and her articl…
The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time
Book Review| April 01 2019 The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time Sheldon Anderson, The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time, (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 229 pp. ISBN 978–1442277557. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2019) 76 (1): 94–97. https://doi.or…
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing
Book Review| October 01 2018 Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing Urszula Chowaniec, Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing, (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2015). 250 pp. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8097-3. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (201…
Poland on My Mind and Polish in My Belly
"So They Will Know Their Heritage": A Review of Contemporary Research on Polish Americans, 1995-2015
Research Article| April 01 2016 "So They Will Know Their Heritage": A Review of Contemporary Research on Polish Americans, 1995-2015 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2016) 73 (1): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.73.1.0031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; "So…
On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy
In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and s…
Title IX and the School Experiences of Pregnant and Mothering Students
This article examines why pregnant and mothering students did or did not stay in high school to see whether schools violated Title IX legislation by not providing equal educational opportunities. Examining life-story interviews conducted in 2002–2004 with 62 black, white, and Latina pregnant and mothering students in Connecticut, the author found that (1) while school policies and faculty were often hostile and unreceptive, mothers who dropped ou…
Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007
Research Article| April 01 2008 Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2008) 65 (1): 77–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148792 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polish American Historical Association Membership Surve…
What They Tell You to Forget: From Child Sexual Abuse to Adolescent Motherhood
This study explores the relationship between child sexual abuse and adolescent motherhood, using a life story interview method. The sample consists of 27 mothers participating in a home-visitation parenting program for mothers at risk of child maltreatment. The failure to articulate the violation of child sexual abuse and to appropriately construct blame resulted in a range of self-destructive behaviors, some of which placed mothers at greater ri…
The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic
Research Article| July 01 2007 The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic? Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543197 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic?. Journal of Ame…
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done)
Research Article| October 01 2006 Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done) Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2006) 63 (2): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148750 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done). Polish Ame…
The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2005) 62 (2): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148725 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furnitur…
Feminist Sociology: Methodology and Politics in Disciplinary Change” by Marietta Morrissey
Pears on a Willow Tree
Book Review| October 01 2002 Pears on a Willow Tree Pears on a Willow Tree, Leslie Pietrzyk. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2002) 59 (2): 105–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148644 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Pears on a Willow Tree. Polish American Studies 1 Janua…
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away
Research Article| April 01 2000 Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2000) 57 (1): 5–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148578 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away. Polish American St…
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Immigration, Stress, and Readjustment
Immigrants and Ethnics: Conflict and Identity in Chicago Polonia
Immigration is both an historical and contemporary phenomenon in the United States. As a result, various ancestral generations coexist. For example, third generation Polish American ethnics share social space with recent Polish immigrants in Chicago. While common ancestry leads immigrants and ethnics to think they ought to work together, dissimilarities between the groups lead to conflict. Two sources of conflict are identified. First, disparate …
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
What They Tell You to Forget: From Child Sexual Abuse to Adolescent Motherhood
This study explores the relationship between child sexual abuse and adolescent motherhood, using a life story interview method. The sample consists of 27 mothers participating in a home-visitation parenting program for mothers at risk of child maltreatment. The failure to articulate the violation of child sexual abuse and to appropriately construct blame resulted in a range of self-destructive behaviors, some of which placed mothers at greater ri…
The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic
Research Article| July 01 2007 The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic? Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543197 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic?. Journal of Ame…
Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away
Research Article| April 01 2000 Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2000) 57 (1): 5–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148578 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away. Polish American St…
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Journal Article Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990. By Mary Patrice Erdmans. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-271-01735-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01736-8.) Get access Dominic A. Pacyga Dominic A. Pacyga Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86,…
Gender and Family in Polish American Studies
Research Article| April 01 2020 Gender and Family in Polish American Studies Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans is a professor of sociology at Case Western Reserve University. Her areas of interest include immigration and ethnicity, with a focus on contemporary Polish migration to the United States. She is the author of Opposite Poles (1998), The Grasinski Girls (2005), and On Becoming a Teen Mom (2015), and her articl…
Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007
Research Article| April 01 2008 Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2008) 65 (1): 77–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148792 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polish American Historical Association Membership Surve…
The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2005) 62 (2): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148725 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furnitur…
The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland
Immigrants and Ethnics: Conflict and Identity in Chicago Polonia
Immigration is both an historical and contemporary phenomenon in the United States. As a result, various ancestral generations coexist. For example, third generation Polish American ethnics share social space with recent Polish immigrants in Chicago. While common ancestry leads immigrants and ethnics to think they ought to work together, dissimilarities between the groups lead to conflict. Two sources of conflict are identified. First, disparate …
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Immigration, Stress, and Readjustment
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Journal Article Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990. By Mary Patrice Erdmans. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-271-01735-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-271-01736-8.) Get access Dominic A. Pacyga Dominic A. Pacyga Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86,…
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Portraits of Emigration: Sour Milk and Honey in the Promised Land
This article analyzes the moral tones of public emigration stories through an exploratory analysis of newspaper stories published between 1990 and 1993 in a region in Poland with a century-old tradition of out-migration. Media stories are fertile ground for examining values and myths because they negotiate between the micro-level process of individuals constructing meanings and the macro-level process of political economies producing meanings. I …
Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away
Research Article| April 01 2000 Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2000) 57 (1): 5–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148578 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polonia in the New Century: We Will Not Fade Away. Polish American St…
Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990
Pears on a Willow Tree
Book Review| October 01 2002 Pears on a Willow Tree Pears on a Willow Tree, Leslie Pietrzyk. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2002) 59 (2): 105–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148644 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Pears on a Willow Tree. Polish American Studies 1 Janua…
Feminist Sociology: Methodology and Politics in Disciplinary Change” by Marietta Morrissey
The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2005) 62 (2): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148725 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Poles, the Dutch and the Grand Rapids Furnitur…
The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done)
Research Article| October 01 2006 Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done) Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2006) 63 (2): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148750 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Presidential Address: In Praise of Work (To Be Done). Polish Ame…
The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic
Research Article| July 01 2007 The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic? Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543197 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; The Personal Is Political, but Is It Academic?. Journal of Ame…
Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007
Research Article| April 01 2008 Polish American Historical Association Membership Survey, 2007 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2008) 65 (1): 77–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148792 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; Polish American Historical Association Membership Surve…
What They Tell You to Forget: From Child Sexual Abuse to Adolescent Motherhood
This study explores the relationship between child sexual abuse and adolescent motherhood, using a life story interview method. The sample consists of 27 mothers participating in a home-visitation parenting program for mothers at risk of child maltreatment. The failure to articulate the violation of child sexual abuse and to appropriately construct blame resulted in a range of self-destructive behaviors, some of which placed mothers at greater ri…
Title IX and the School Experiences of Pregnant and Mothering Students
This article examines why pregnant and mothering students did or did not stay in high school to see whether schools violated Title IX legislation by not providing equal educational opportunities. Examining life-story interviews conducted in 2002–2004 with 62 black, white, and Latina pregnant and mothering students in Connecticut, the author found that (1) while school policies and faculty were often hostile and unreceptive, mothers who dropped ou…
On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy
In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and s…
"So They Will Know Their Heritage": A Review of Contemporary Research on Polish Americans, 1995-2015
Research Article| April 01 2016 "So They Will Know Their Heritage": A Review of Contemporary Research on Polish Americans, 1995-2015 Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2016) 73 (1): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.73.1.0031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Patrice Erdmans; "So…
Poland on My Mind and Polish in My Belly
Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing
Book Review| October 01 2018 Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing Urszula Chowaniec, Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing, (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2015). 250 pp. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8097-3. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (201…
The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time
Book Review| April 01 2019 The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time Sheldon Anderson, The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Athlete of Her Time, (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 229 pp. ISBN 978–1442277557. Mary Patrice Erdmans Mary Patrice Erdmans Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2019) 76 (1): 94–97. https://doi.or…
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Memoirs, Biographies, and Other Accounts of the Polish Diaspora
Other| October 01 2020 Memoirs, Biographies, and Other Accounts of the Polish Diaspora Małgorzata Czermińska, The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge, translated by Jean Ward (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019). 347 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-67427-7.Stephen W. C. Gnyś, First Kills: The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś, illustrated by John D. Bindon (Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2017). 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-61200-55…
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