Freedom of the Streets Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City

Name: Freedom of the Streets Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City
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ISBN: 9780807856017

ISBN-10: 0807856010

ISBN-13: 9780807856017

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sharon E. Wood

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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, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100

Sharon E. Wood is associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has edited two volumes, The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909, by Josie Washburn, and A Home in the West, or Emigration and Its Consequences, by M. Emilia Rockwell.



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 business of Bucktown


Conclusion : the popular young lady in business life