Women and the city: gender, space, and power in Boston, 1870-1940

Introduction: Reconceiving the city

The "overworked wife": Making a working - class home and negotiating status, autonomy, and the family economy

Work or worse: Desexualized space, domestic service, and class

The moral geography of the working girl (and the new woman)

The business of women

Learning to talk more like a man: Women's class - bridging organizations

We are going to stand by one another: Shifting alliances in women's labor organizing

A debut or a fight?: Class, race, and party in Boston women's politics, 1920-1940

Conclusion.