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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, Sharon E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Women > Iowa > Davenport > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Employment > Iowa > Davenport > History > 19th century.
Prostitution > Iowa > Davenport > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Iowa > Davenport > History > 19th century.
Femmes > Iowa > Davenport > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Travail > Iowa > Davenport > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Prostitution > Iowa > Davenport > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Iowa > Davenport > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Prostitution
Sex role
Women > Employment
Women > Social conditions
Geschlechterrolle
Berufstätigkeit
Soziale Situation
Frau
Iowa > Davenport
Davenport, Iowa
History
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