Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)
Home on the Railsfills a considerable void in the history  of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a  useful and delightful book. --H. Roger Grant, Clemson UniversityA "Historians' Picks" title. --New York Journal of American HistoryA stylish, original and entertaining interpretation of the  domestication and commodification of public life on the rails at the end of  the nineteenth century. Amy Richter's engaging voice will draw in students,  and her arguments about the gendered transformation of public space in  Victorian America will spark conversations among scholars at all levels. --Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins UniversityA work that is intellectually rich, amply documented and contains  enough social history on the conditions of rail cars, behaviors of  passengers, and Americans' love of travel to merit it a place alongside  more traditional historiography on American railroads. --Technology and CultureThis is not your parents' railroad history. . . . [Home on the Rails] breathes life into an old, often stale debate  about the role of the ideology of separate spheres in the lives of women. --Journal of Transport History