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Women and the City : Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.
In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and poor, white and black, immigrant and native-bor...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: Reconceiving the City
- 1 THE ""OVERWORKED WIFE"": Making a Working-Class Home and Negotiating Status, Autonomy, and the Family Economy
- 2 WORK OR WORSE: Desexualized Space, Domestic Service, and Class
- 3 THE MORAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORKING GIRL (AND THE NEW WOMAN)
- 4 THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN: Petty Entrepreneurs
- 5 LEARNING TO TALK MORE LIKE A MAN: Woman's Class-Bridging Organizations
- 6 ""WE ARE GOING TO STAND BY ONE ANOTHER"": Shifting Alliances in Women's Labor Organizing.
- 7 A DEBUT OR A FIGHT?: Class, Race, and Party in Boston Women's Politics, 1920-1940
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Index
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