Introduction : the Belva Lockwood club -- Women in the city : law, reputation, and geography -- Women's citizenship and the problem of employment -- A place in the city : the working woman's lend a hand club -- Lives without choices : prostitution as employment -- The police matron campaign and the reform of urban environments -- Sporting men and little girls -- Making the city safe for white men : regulated prostitution -- Protecting men by reforming girls : good shepherd homes -- Women, men, and the businesses of Bucktown -- Conclusion : the popular young lady in business life
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index
0807854557 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Liberty party gender ideologies -- From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation -- Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism -- Democrats and the defense of patriarchy -- Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign -- Republican women and the 1856 election -- Republican gender ideology in 1860
Concepts and methods: understanding opportunity shifts among transit operators in the post-affirmative action era -- From exclusion to selective inclusion: pre-1975 employment trends in the transit industry -- Open doors, segregated facilities: African American women's incorporation into AC Transit -- A rough ride: how worker-centered reforms, ambivalence, and declining conditions create work-life conflicts -- Drug tests and pencil whippings: the consequences of workplace discipline within AC Transit -- A house divided: the impact of persistent bias on low-skilled workers