Women And The City Gender,Space, and Power İn Boston, 1870-1940

Book : Women And The City Gender,Space, and Power İn Boston, 1870-1940

Author : * Sarah Deutsch

Language : English

Library : Women

Publish Place : New York

ISBN : 0-19-505705-8

Publish Date : 00 2000

Publisher : Oxford University press

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 2493

INDEX


Contents
Acknowledgments, ix Abbreviations, xi
introduction
Reconceiving the City
the "overworked wife"
Making a Working- Class Home and Negotiating Status, Autonomy, and the Family Economy

work or worse
Desexualied Space, Domestic Service, and Class
the moral geography of the working girl (and the new woman)

the business of women
Petty Entrepreneurs
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 notes, Index,