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Transcribing class and gender : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / Carole Srole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Srole, Carole, 1948-
- 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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