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City of Women
Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Christine Stansell
Paper978-0-252-01481-9
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 1987 |
| Pages: | 320 pages |
"Stansell brings nineteenth-century New York's working women out of the shadows. . . . A brilliant and original book."--Katha Pollitt
"Describing the specific moral and economic circumstances of individual female lives, Stansell makes vivid historical sense of what until now has been obscured by generalization, abstraction, and oversimplification."--Jean Strouse
"This is truly innovative and responsible social history."--Elaine Showalter
"A fascinating, subtly intelligent work of scholarship."--Barbara Ehrenreich
Christine Stansell, a member of the history department at Princeton University, is co-editor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality.
Subjects:
Women's Studies / History, Am.: 19th C. / Radical Studies
