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

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Srole, Carole, 1948-
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
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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.
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Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.
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9780472026647 (ebook)
047202664X
047207055X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472070558 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472050550
0472050559
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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