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Author Strange, Carolyn

Title Toronto's Girl Problem : the Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Series Studies in Gender and History
Studies in gender and history.
Contents Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 City Work, Moral Dilemmas -- 3 Ruined Girls and Fallen Women -- 4 The Social Evil in the Queen City -- 5 Good Times and Bad Girls -- 6 Temptations, Crimes, and Follies -- 7 Citizens, Workers, and Mothers of the Race -- 8 Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- Single Women and Toronto's Industrial Development, 1880-1930 -- Sex, Crime, and Policing, 1880-1930 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PICTURE CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ILLUSTRATIONS
Summary The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl
Notes Print version record
Subject Single women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Young women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions
Single women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions
Young women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions
Single women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions
Young women -- Employment -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Single women -- Economic conditions
Single women -- Employment
Single women -- Social conditions
Young women -- Economic conditions
Young women -- Employment
Young women -- Social conditions
Ontario -- Toronto
Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442682696
1442682698