02175nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10395635 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090515s2010 miua sb 001 0 eng 2009018640 9780472070558 (cloth : alk. paper) 047207055X (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)649914297 n-us--- HD6073.S582 U67 2010eb 305.38/9623097309034 22 Srole, Carole, 1948- Transcribing class and gender [electronic resource] : masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / Carole Srole. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. viii, 324 p. : ill. 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 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Class, culture. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10395635 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 88348 88348