The freedom of the streets : work, citizenship, and sexuality in a gilded age city /
Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. She offers portraits of individual girls and women - both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers - seeking to reshape their city and expand women's...
| Основен автор: | Wood, Sharon E. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Серия: |
Gender & American culture.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147575 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Freedom of the streets. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : the Belva Lockwood club
- Women in the city : law, reputation, and geography
- Women's citizenship and the problem of employment
- A place in the city : the working woman's lend a hand club
- Lives without choices : prostitution as employment
- The police matron campaign and the reform of urban environments
- Sporting men and little girls
- Making the city safe for white men : regulated prostitution
- Protecting men by reforming girls : good shepherd homes
- Women, men, and the businesses of Bucktown
- Conclusion : the popular young lady in business life.