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Author Richter, Amy G

Title Home on the rails : women, the railroad, and the rise of public domesticity / Amy G. Richter
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Narrative lines -- When spheres collide -- At home aboard -- A ladies' place -- Working for the railroad -- Nerves of steel
Summary Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence. White men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet preserved the railroad as a masculine domain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index
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Subject Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Railroads -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Railroads
Railroads -- Social aspects
Sex role
Women
Vrouwen.
Reizigers.
Spoorwegen.
Persoonlijke levenssfeer.
Openbaar leven.
15.85 history of America.
Eisenbahn
Frau
Geschlechterrolle
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004016552
ISBN 080787647X
9780807876473