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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 by Christine Stansell, Roger Chickering Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1987 ISBN-10: 0-252-01481-2 / 0252014812 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01481-9 / 9780252014819 How women emerged as a distinctive class in the burgeoning society of New York City in the postCivil War era is explored from an original viewpoint in this interesting study. Female class relations, ``ladies'' and working women, were symbiotic. The laborers had their sexual and social demeanor regul |