Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 by Joanne Meyerowitz

Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

Women in Culture and Society

Joanne Meyerowitz

248 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defin...

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