UID:
almafu_9959241223402883
Format:
xi, 387 p. :
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ill. maps.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-771807-8
,
1-4237-3642-7
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1-280-53992-5
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1-60129-725-4
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0-19-972810-0
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
A penetrating analysis of how women shaped public and private space in Boston - and how space shaped women's lives in turn - during a period of dramatic change in American cities.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2000.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Reconceiving the City -- 1 THE "OVERWORKED WIFE": Making a Working-Class Home and Negotiating Status, Autonomy, and the Family Economy -- 2 WORK OR WORSE: Desexualized Space, Domestic Service, and Class -- 3 THE MORAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORKING GIRL (AND THE NEW WOMAN) -- 4 THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN: Petty Entrepreneurs -- 5 LEARNING TO TALK MORE LIKE A MAN: Woman's Class-Bridging Organizations -- 6 "WE ARE GOING TO STAND BY ONE ANOTHER": Shifting Alliances in Women's Labor Organizing -- 7 A DEBUT OR A FIGHT?: Class, Race, and Party in Boston Women's Politics, 1920-1940 -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-515864-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-505705-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195057058.001.0001
