Transcribing class and gender [electronic resource] : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / Carole Srole.
Series: Class, culturePublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.Description: viii, 324 p. : illISBN:- 9780472070558 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 047207055X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 305.38/9623097309034 22
- HD6073.S582 U67 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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