| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. By Sharon E. Wood. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvi, 321 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2939-0. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5601-0.)

This wonderful book is required reading for historians of women, sexuality, and public policy in the late nineteenth-century United States. Sharon E. Wood vividly resurrects Davenport, Iowa, a notorious "sin city" on the Mississippi River, as she explores prostitution, women's entry into respectable paid employment, and negotiations over sex, leisure, and public space. Davenport policy makers tried an array of experiments, but two priorities remained consistent: policing young women and protecting male prerogatives. Only a small alliance of professional and working women offered an alternative view.

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