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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods.
The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.
The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.
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Wood examines the network of single, white women who migrated to Davenport, Iowa, during and after the Civil War in pursuit of wages and professional advancement. The many personal stories included here demonstrate the development of women's political activism as well as the unintended consequences of efforts to control prostitution.
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- EditoreUniv of North Carolina Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0807829390
- ISBN 13 9780807829394
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine321
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The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City
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The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
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ISBN 10: 0807829390
ISBN 13: 9780807829394
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket. Book is gently used with some minor wear. Tightly bound copy with some marginalia and underlining. Inv. # 9829. Codice articolo 009829
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