The Freedom of the Streets
Subtitle: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780807829394
Subjects: Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Prostitution; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Gender Studies; United States - 19th Century; Sociology; Iowa; Davenport, Iowa; single working women; prostitution; Association for the Advancement of Women; female employment; public policy; police matrons; legal reform; rape; poverty; sexual politics; brothels; dance halls; sex industry; sexual exploitation; Sisters of the Good Shepherd; reformatories; boardinghouses; respectability; Progressive Era politics; urban women; history of sexuality; urban space; Belva Lockwood Club; child prostitutes; Employment; Women; United States - State & Local - Midwest; 19th century; Davenport; History; Social conditions
First sentence: IN THE LATE FALL OF 1888, just a few days before Election Day, thirty men dressed in gowns and bonnets paraded by torchlight through the streets of Davenport, Iowa.