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Women and the city : gender, space, and power in Boston, 1870-1940 / Sarah Deutsch.
Author
Deutsch, Sarah
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description
xi, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Women
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Massachusetts
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Boston
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History
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Women in community organization
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Massachusetts
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Boston
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History
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Women in public life
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Massachusetts
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Boston
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History
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Spatial behavior
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Massachusetts
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Boston
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History
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Urban women
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Massachusetts
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History
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Summary note
"Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from a place with no respectable public space for women to a city where women sat on the City Council and met their beaux on the street corners. The book follows the efforts of working-class, middle-class, and elite matrons, working girls and "new women" as they struggled to shape the city in their own interests. And in fact they succeeded, rearranging and redefining the moral geography of the city and in so doing broadening the scope of their own opportunities. But Deutsch reveals that not all women shared equally in this new access to public space, and even those who did walk the streets with relative impunity and protested their wrongs in public did so only through strategic and limited alliances with other women and with men."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Reconceiving the city
The "overworked wife": Making a working
class home and negotiating status, autonomy, and the family economy
Work or worse: Desexualized space, domestic service, and class
The moral geography of the working girl (and the new woman)
The business of women
Learning to talk more like a man: Women's class
bridging organizations
We are going to stand by one another: Shifting alliances in women's labor organizing
A debut or a fight?: Class, race, and party in Boston women's politics, 1920-1940
Conclusion.
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ISBN
0195057058 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780195057058 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0195158644
9780195158649
9786610539925
6610539928
LCCN
99034659
OCLC
41482316
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