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

• Autore: Deutsch Sarah
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 387 p. : ill. maps
• Disciplina: 305.4/09744/61
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-371) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and the city
• ISBN: 0-19-771807-8; 1-4237-3642-7; 1-280-53992-5; 1-60129-725-4; 0-19-972810-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812503803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.