Transcribing class and gender
Subtitle: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices
By: Carole Srole.
Series: Class : culture; Class, culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780472070558
Subjects: Working class women -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Stenographers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Femininity -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: viii, 324 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870; title: Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees; title: Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence; title: The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism; title: Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability; title: "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman; title: Performances of professionalism.