Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Wood, Sharon E.

Title The freedom of the streets : work, citizenship, and sexuality in a gilded age city / Sharon E. Wood.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HQ1439.D8 W66 2005    Available  ---
Description xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the Belva Lockwood club -- Women in the city : law, reputation, and geography -- Women's citizenship and the problem of employment -- A place in the city : the working woman's lend a hand club -- Lives without choices : prostitution as employment -- The police matron campaign and the reform of urban environments -- Sporting men and little girls -- Making the city safe for white men : regulated prostitution -- Protecting men by reforming girls : good shepherd homes -- Women, men, and the businesses of Bucktown -- Conclusion : the popular young lady in business life.
Subject Women -- Iowa -- Davenport -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women.
Iowa -- Davenport.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women -- Employment -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Employment.
History.
Prostitution -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- 19th century.
Prostitution.
Sex role -- Iowa -- Davenport -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
Women.
Womyn.
Female prostitution.
Prostitution.
Gender roles.
ISBN 0807856010 paperback alkaline paper
0807829390 cloth alkaline paper