Home on the Rails
Subtitle: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807829264
Subjects: Railway transport industries; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Railroads; History - U.S.; United States - 19th Century; Sociology; USA; Social aspects; Railroads - History; Women's Studies - History; Victorian America; Victorian public culture; gender; separate spheres; domesticity; railroad history; public space; segregated space; women travelers; trains; nineteenth century; rail travel; conductors; 19th century; History; Sex role; United States
First sentence: "Look at the map."