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Transcribing class and gender : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / Carole Srole.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Srole, Carole, 1948-
Contributor:
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Series:
Class, culture.
Class, culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Working class women--United States--History--19th century.
Working class women.
Stenographers--United States--History--19th century.
Stenographers.
Masculinity--United States--History--19th century.
Masculinity.
Femininity--United States--History--19th century.
Femininity.
Social classes--United States--History--19th century.
Social classes.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (335 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-282-64458-0
9786612644580
0-472-02664-X
OCLC:
649914297

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