A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth century American middle class Doing something definite : the emergence of real estate brokerage as a career 1883 1908 Real estate brokerage and the formation of a (national) middle class consciousness 1907 1915 Character competency and real (estate) professionalism 1915 1921 Applied realology: administration education and the consequences of partial professionalization in the 1920s The realtors go to Washington: enshrining homeownership in the 1930s Rosie the realtor and the re gendering of real estate brokerage 1938 1950 Domesticity gender and real estate in the 1950s and beyond