Women and the city : gender, space, and power in Boston, 1870-1940 / Sarah Deutsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deutsch, Sarah, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Massachusetts--Boston--History.

Women in community organization--Massachusetts--Boston--History.

Women in public life--Massachusetts--Boston--History.

Spatial behavior--Massachusetts--Boston--History.

Urban women--Massachusetts--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 387 p. : ill. maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-371) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771807-8

1-4237-3642-7

1-280-53992-5

1-60129-725-4

0-19-972810-0

OCLC:

814460406