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Title: City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell ISBN: 0-252-01481-2 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A History of Survival
Comment: During the early part of the nineteenth century, women began to experience their first taste of autonomy. Although women were finding a role in the American workplace and society there were not many options for them. As part of the struggle to escape poverty in New York City, prostitution became an increasingly viable choice for girls with out other alternatives. Historian Christine Stansell states, "It was both an economic and a social option, a means of self-support and a way to bargain with men in a situation where a living wage was hard to come by, and holding one's own in heterosexual relations was difficult." This book deals with women in the factories as well as the working girls. Easy to read and very informative.
Rating: 5
Summary: An illuinating look into the lives of working women of NYC.
Comment: Chritine Stansell has captured and vividly illuminated the lives of working women of the Industrial Revolution in NYC. I have studied this book for two classes and am sorry that I had not come across it sooner. If you are interested in the youth culture and the ways that a culture of single women emerged, this is a great book. If you are interested in the ways that working women handled themselves against the burden of the middle class genteel precepts, read this book. If you want a factual yet compelling picture of a history of women that is free from bias, check this out! City of Women details the lives of these women in a way that empowers and reveals truths that have long been hidden from America's full historical picture.
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Title: The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 by Nancy F. Cott ISBN: 0300072988 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones ISBN: 0394745361 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 (Women in American History) by Ardis Cameron ISBN: 025206318X Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin ISBN: 0809016060 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet A. Jacobs ISBN: 0486419312 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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