Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire /

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In this engaging book--the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace--Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berebitsky, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Series:Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Employment > United States > History > 20th century.
Women employees > United States > History.
Sex role > United States > History > 20th century.
Personnel féminin > États-Unis > Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Industry.
Sex role
Women employees
Women > Employment
Weibliche Angestellte
Geschlechterrolle
Büro
Arbeitswelt.
Geschlechterbeziehung.
Geschlechterrolle.
Macht.
Frau.
Berufsrolle.
Sexualität.
Kontorister > historia > Förenta staterna.
Arbetsförhållanden > sexuella trakasserier.
Könsroller.
Kvinnouppfattning.
Kvinnor > arbete och arbetsmarknad > historia > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
Könsroller > historia > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
Sexuella trakasserier > historia > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
United States
USA
USA.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dangers, desires, and self-determination : competing narratives of the sexual culture of the new, gender-integrated office
  • White-collar casanovas : gender, class, and (hetero)sexuality in the office, 1861 to World War II
  • Betwixt and between : new freedoms and new risks in the sexually and psychologically modern office
  • Gold diggers, innocents, and tempted wives : the skyscraper in fiction and film
  • Morals and morale : managing sex in business, World War II to the early 1960s
  • The white-collar revolution : Helen Gurley Brown, sex, and a new model of working womanhood
  • Desire or discrimination? : old narratives meet a new interpretation
  • Two steps forward, one step back : wanted and unwelcome advances after "sexual harassment."

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