TY - BOOK AU - Srole,Carole TI - Transcribing class and gender: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices T2 - Class : culture SN - 9780472070558 U1 - 305.3097309034 23E PY - 2010/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press N1 - Index; 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 ER -