| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Georgina Hickey. Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 297. $39.95.
Between 1890 and 1940, Atlanta grew tremendously—and very self-consciously. The city's leaders struggled to balance their enthusiasm for growth and prestige with their determination to maintain Deep South cultural traditions. Scholars have explored these tumultuous decades in Atlanta's history using a variety of windows onto the period, from labor conflict to leisure, from the 1906 race riot to the Leo Frank murder case. In her new study, Georgina Hickey touches on all of these topics and more in examining the city's formative period from the vantage point of working-class women. Hickey's primary goal is to analyze the ways in which more elite Atlantans utilized images of working women to publicize and grapple with the societal tensions of the day. Historiographically groundbreaking in its "wholehearted analysis of the connection between gender and urban development" (p. 3), this book makes a significant contribution to southern, urban, women's and Atlanta history.	1
Hickey argues that, with racial tensions muted following the 1906 riot, a space was opened in which other identities could be debated and redefined. Working-class women, dramatically increasing in number and a growing presence in the city's public spaces, came under particular scrutiny. "Controlling the behaviors of working-class women became the means through which the city's middle-classes" labored to maintain Atlanta's "morality" and "respectability" (p. 59). Thus, "For a brief moment," working women "functioned as the ideological territory for the contested work of city building" (p. 6).	. . .

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