ACLS Humanities E-Book: City of women: sex and class in New York, 1789-1860

City of women: sex and class in New York, 1789-1860

Stansell, Christine.

Year: 1986.

Publisher: Knopf.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Precarious Dependencies: Women in the Republican City, 1789-1820

CHAPTER 1 FEMALE WORK AND POVERTY

CHAPTER 2 THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCY: MEN AND WOMEN, RICH AND POOR

Part Two. The Politics of Sociability, 1820-1850

CHAPTER 3 WOMEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS

CHAPTER 4 PLACES OF VICE: VIEWS OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS

CHAPTER 5 WOMEN AND MEN

Part Three. Wage Work

CHAPTER 6 HARROWING TRUTHS: MANUFACTURING WORK

CHAPTER 7 WOMEN AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT

CHAPTER 8 DOMESTIC SERVICE

Part Four. The Politics of the Streets, 1850-1860

CHAPTER 9 WOMEN ON THE TOWN: SEXUAL EXCHANGE AND PROSTITUTION

CHAPTER 10 THE USES OF THE STREETS

CONCLUSION

Appendix: Tables

Notes

A Note on Sources

Index

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Title:

City of women : sex and class in New York, 1789-1860 Christine Stansell.

Author:

Stansell, Christine

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City of women : sex and class in New York, 1789-1860 Christine Stansell.
Stansell, Christine
New York: Knopf, 1986.

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Subject Headings:

• Women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
• Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
• New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions

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