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The Freedom of the Streets : Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City.
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ISBN: 0807876534 9780807876534 0807829390 9780807829394 0807856010 9780807856017 9798890871312 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. She offers portraits of individual girls and women - both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers - seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities.

A home in the West, or, Emigration and its consequences
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ISBN: 1587295970 9781587295973 9780877459439 0877459436 Year: 2005 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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This is the first novel published in Iowa. Printed in Dubuque in 1858, it was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa; what makes it unique among emigration literature is the fact that it was directed at women, using the form of a domestic novel loaded with gentle mothers and stalwart fathers, flower-gemmed prairies and vine-draped cottages, and lots of tender words and humble weddings to encourage women to settle in the new state. Mary Emilia Rockwell tells the story of Walter and Annie Judson, who one desperate March night decide to move to the West in search of a better life. Walter is an exp

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