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The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (Gender and American Culture)
The Freedom of the Streets Work Citizenship and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City - Gender and American Culture
Author: Sharon E. Wood
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807829394
ISBN-10: 0807829390
Publication Date: 4/25/2005
Pages: 408
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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