Title Transcribing class and gender : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / Carole Srole

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource Series Class : culture Class, culture. Contents Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees -- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence -- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism -- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability -- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman -- Performances of professionalism Summary Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Femininity Masculinity Social classes Stenographers Working class women Arbeitswelt Geschlechterrolle Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung Soziale Ungleichheit United States USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020706781 ISBN 9780472026647 047202664X

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