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2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas CollegeSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThis is Olivia’s story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until the age of three. Olivia then returns to L.A. to live with her mother, Carmen, the live-in maid to a wealthy family. Mother and daughter sleep in the maid’s room, just off the kitchen. Olivia is raised alongside the other children of the family. She goes to school with them, eats meals with them, and is taken shopping for clothes with them. She is like a member of the family. Except she is not. Based on over twenty years of research, noted scholar Mary Romero brings Olivia’s remarkable story to life. We watch as she grows up among the children of privilege, struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of this extraordinary story is told in Olivia’s voice and we hear of both her triumphs and setbacks. We come to understand the painful realization of wanting to claim a Mexican heritage that is in many ways not her own and of her constant struggle to come to terms with the great contradictions in her life. In The Maid’s Daughter, Mary Romero explores this complex story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia’s challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. Through Olivia’s story, Romero shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor.A happy ending for the maid's daughter: Hector Tobar's profile of Olivia for the LA Times

Minority women --- Hispanic American women --- Women household employees --- Latinas --- Women, Hispanic American --- Women --- Women minorities --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Employment --- History.

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Die prekäre Existenz weiblicher Hausangestellter in Küchen, Kinderzimmern und Ehebetten hat eine Vorgeschichte, die so alt ist wie die Geschichte des modernen Romans. Mit Richardsons Erfolgsroman Pamela (1740) betritt eine Figur, die bis dahin eine Randexistenz in der Komödie zu fristen hatte, die Bühne des modernen Romans: das Dienstmädchen. Ihre Karriere führt sie durch alle Gesellschaftsschichten und literarischen Gattungen. Man begegnet ihr als soziale Aufsteigerin bei Richardson, als gepeinigte Unschuld bei de Sade, frömmelnde Alte und »einfaches Herz« bei Flaubert, hysterische Magd, schließlich als Ehemonster bei Elias Canetti - bevor sie in der Angestelltenwelt des modernen Films untergeht. Über zweihundert Jahre ist sie die Verkörperung einer bis heute unaufgelösten Paradoxie: nämlich dass die Welt der bürgerlichen Familie sich zu einem intimen Binnenraum schließt, strukturell aber von der Dauerpräsenz familienfremder Personen abhängig bleibt. Das Buch analysiert den bürgerlichen Familiendiskurs von seinen Rändern und Ausgrenzungen her - in prominenter Weise bei Sigmund Freud, dessen Fallstudien vielfach von weiblichen Dienstboten handeln, die im Vater-Mutter-Kind-Mythos der Psychoanalyse keinen Platz finden.

Social structure in literature. --- Women household employees. --- European literature --- Mistresses in literature. --- Illegitimacy in literature. --- Man-woman relationships in literature. --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Themes, motives.

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On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life.This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield.As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'

Murderers --- Women household employees --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Homicide offenders --- Killers (Murderers) --- Murder offenders --- Criminals --- Blake, Hilda, --- Blake, Emily Hilda, --- Brandon (Man.) --- Brandon, Man.

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Household employees. --- Women household employees. --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees

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While the issues addressed span the disciplines of South African and architectural history, feminist studies, material culture studies, and psychology, the book's strong narrative, powerful oral histories, and compelling subject matter bring the neighborhoods and residents it examines vividly to life.

ARCHITECTURE --- History / General --- Apartheid --- Women household employees --- Domestic space --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Social conditions --- Race relations --- History --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Separate development (Race relations) --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa) --- Architecture, Domestic --- Space (Architecture) --- Room layout (Dwellings) --- Household employees --- Segregation --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era