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The murder of a business partner doesn't sound very sexy. But Gamber raises a provocative issue when she studies the era's disapproving attitude toward any woman who dared to benefit from the commercial opportunities of a postwar world - especially if that commerce happened to be illegal. At Mrs. Clem's fifth murder trial, court attorneys were still exchanging fierce arguments over 'the respectability of working women.' New York Times Book Review

The murder of a business partner doesn't sound very sexy. But Gamber raises a provocative issue when she studies the era's disapproving attitude toward any woman who dared to benefit from the commercial opportunities of a postwar world-especially if that commerce happened to be illegal. New York Times Book Review

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Wendy Gamber is the Robert F. Byrnes Professor in History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America and The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930.

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