Srole, Carole, 1948-
Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / [electronic resource] : Carole Srole. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. - viii, 324 p. : ill. - Class, culture . - Class, culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Working class women--History--United States--19th century.
Stenographers--History--United States--19th century.
Masculinity--History--United States--19th century.
Femininity--History--United States--19th century.
Social classes--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6073.S582 / U67 2010eb
305.38/9623097309034
Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / [electronic resource] : Carole Srole. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. - viii, 324 p. : ill. - Class, culture . - Class, culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Working class women--History--United States--19th century.
Stenographers--History--United States--19th century.
Masculinity--History--United States--19th century.
Femininity--History--United States--19th century.
Social classes--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6073.S582 / U67 2010eb
305.38/9623097309034