The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (Gender and American Culture)

by SharonE.Wood (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $60.69

  Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. She offers portraits of individual girls and women - both prostitutes and respectable white workers - seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities.