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City of women: sex and class in New York, 1789-1860
Christine Stansell-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction (page xi)
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Part One. Precarious Dependencies: Women in the Republican City, 1789-1820 (page 1)
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CHAPTER 1 FEMALE WORK AND POVERTY (page 3)
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CHAPTER 2 THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCY: MEN AND WOMEN, RICH AND POOR (page 19)
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Part Two. The Politics of Sociability, 1820-1850 (page 39)
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CHAPTER 3 WOMEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS (page 41)
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CHAPTER 4 PLACES OF VICE: VIEWS OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS (page 63)
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CHAPTER 5 WOMEN AND MEN (page 76)
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Part Three. Wage Work (page 103)
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CHAPTER 6 HARROWING TRUTHS: MANUFACTURING WORK (page 105)
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CHAPTER 7 WOMEN AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT (page 130)
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CHAPTER 8 DOMESTIC SERVICE (page 155)
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Part Four. The Politics of the Streets, 1850-1860 (page 169)
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CHAPTER 9 WOMEN ON THE TOWN: SEXUAL EXCHANGE AND PROSTITUTION (page 171)
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CHAPTER 10 THE USES OF THE STREETS (page 193)
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CONCLUSION (page 217)
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Appendix: Tables (page 225)
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Notes (page 229)
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A Note on Sources (page 285)
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Index (page 291)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAH | 74.3(Dec. 1987): 1057-1058 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198712%2974%3A3%3C1057%3ACOWSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 |
AJS | 93.4 (Jan. 1988): 1010-1011 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28198801%2993%3A4%3C1010%3ACOWSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z |
AHR | 93.2 (Apr. 1988): 500-501 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198804%2993%3A2%3C500%3ACOWSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O |
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- 9780394515342 (hardcover)
- 9780307826503 (ebook)