Women and the city
Subtitle: gender, space, and power in Boston, 1870-1940
By: Sarah Deutsch.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: 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
Description: "Deutsch shows how the women of Boston turned the city from a place with no respectable public space for women to a city where women sat on the City Council and met their beaux on the street corners. The book follows the efforts of working-class, middle-class, and elite matrons, working girls and "new women" as they struggled to shape the city in their own interests.

And in fact they succeeded, rearranging and redefining the moral geography of the city and in so doing broadening the scope of their own opportunities. But Deutsch reveals that not all women shared equally in this new access to public space, and even those who did walk the streets with relative impunity and protested their wrongs in public did so only through strategic and limited alliances with other women and with men."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-371) and index.