Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / [Texte imprimé] :
Carole Srole
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, cop. 2010
- 1 vol. (VIII-324 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
- Class : culture .
- Class, culture (University of Michigan Press) .
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Notes bibliogr.
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.