The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City by Sharon E. Wood

The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City

Sharon E. Wood

344 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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...

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