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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...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of 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.