Sex and the office
Subtitle: a history of gender, power, and desire
By: Julie Berebitsky
Series: Society and the sexes in the modern world
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300118995
Subjects: Employment; Women employees; Women; Sex role; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dangers, desires, and self-determination : competing narratives of the sexual culture of the new, gender-integrated office; title: White-collar casanovas : gender, class, and (hetero)sexuality in the office, 1861 to World War II; title: Betwixt and between : new freedoms and new risks in the sexually and psychologically modern office; title: Gold diggers, innocents, and tempted wives : the skyscraper in fiction and film; title: Morals and morale : managing sex in business, World War II to the early 1960s; title: The white-collar revolution : Helen Gurley Brown, sex, and a new model of working womanhood; title: Desire or discrimination? : old narratives meet a new interpretation; title: Two steps forward, one step back : wanted and unwelcome advances after "sexual harassment".