Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Srole, Carole, 1948-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
Series:Class, culture.
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Table of 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.