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• SOURCE: Jewish Exponent
  3/9/2020
  

  Women’s History Month Spotlight: Maimie Pinzer

  According to historian Melissa R. Klapper, Pinzer’s story has been of great interest to scholars of gender and working-class women because her letters are among the only firsthand accounts of prostitution during the early 20th century. “She was also quite self-aware about the role that gender norms and limitations on women, especially economic, had played in her life.”