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100 1 $aDeutsch, Sarah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85329910
245 10 $aWomen and the city :$bgender, space, and power in Boston, 1870-1940 /$cSarah Deutsch.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2000.
300 $axi, 387 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Reconceiving the City --$g1.$tThe "Overworked Wife": Making a Working-Class Home and Negotiating Status, Autonomy, and the Family Economy --$g2.$tWork or Worse: Desexualized Space, Domestic Service, and Class --$g3.$tThe Moral Geography of the Working Girl (and the New Woman) --$g4.$tThe Business of Women: Petty Entrepreneurs --$g5.$tLearning to Talk More Like a Man: Women's Class-Bridging Organizations --$g6.$t"We Are Going to Stand by One Another": Shifting Alliances in Women's Labor Organizing --$g7.$tA Debut or a Fight? Class, Race, and Party in Boston Women's Politics, 1920-1940.
520 1 $a"Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from a place with no respectable public space for women to a city where women sat on the City Council and met their beaux on the street corners. The book follows the efforts of working-class, middle-class, and elite matrons, working girls and "new women" as they struggled to shape the city in their own interests.
520 8 $aAnd in fact they succeeded, rearranging and redefining the moral geography of the city and in so doing broadening the scope of their own opportunities. But Deutsch reveals that not all women shared equally in this new access to public space, and even those who did walk the streets with relative impunity and protested their wrongs in public did so only through strategic and limited alliances with other women and with men."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aWomen in community organization$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory.
650 0 $aWomen in public life$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory.
650 0 $aSpatial behavior$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory.
650 0 $aUrban women$zMassachusetts$xHistory.
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