City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell

City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860

Christine Stansell

320 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction gender history informative slow-paced
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How women emerged as a distinctive class in the burgeoning society of New York City in the postCivil War era is explored from an original viewpoint in this interesting study. Female class relations, ``ladies'' and working women, were symbiotic. Th...

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