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Home on the rails : women, the railroad, and the rise of public domesticity / Amy G. Richter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richter, Amy G., author.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--United States--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Women--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence. White men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.
- Contents:
- Narrative lines
- When spheres collide
- At home aboard
- A ladies' place
- Working for the railroad
- Nerves of steel.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-255) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877925
- 9780807876473
- 080787647X
- OCLC:
- 476237371
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