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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Srole, Carole, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Colección:Class, culture.
Temas:
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.