Transcribing class and gender : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices /
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2010]
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Colección: | Class, culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870
- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees
- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence
- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism
- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability
- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman
- Performances of professionalism.