Author: New York Press ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Eighth Annual Dinner ... January 6, 1881
Author: New York Press ClubTranscribing Class and Gender
Author: Carole SrolePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047202664X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, her book reminds us of the contradictions that both men and women faced as they navigated changes in the labor market and sought to realize a modern professional identity." ---Thomas Augst, New York University Transcribing Class and Gender explores the changing meanings of clerical work in nineteenth-century America, focusing on the discourse surrounding that work. At a time when shorthand transcription was the primary method of documenting business and legal communications and transactions, most stenographers were men, but changing technology saw the emergence of women in the once male-dominated field. Carole Srole argues that this shift placed stenographers in a unique position to construct a new image of the professional man and woman and, in doing so, to redefine middle- and working-class identities. Many male court reporters emphasized their professionalism, portraying themselves as educated language experts as a way to elevate themselves above the growing numbers of female and working-class stenographers and typewriter operators. Meanwhile, women in the courts and offices were confronting the derogatory image of the so-called Typewriter Girl who cared more about her looks, clothing, and marriage prospects than her job. Like males in the field, women responded by fashioning a gendered professional image---one that served to combat this new version of degraded female labor while also maintaining traditional ideals of femininity. The study is unique in the way it reads and analyzes popular fiction, stenography trade magazines, the archives of professional associations, and writings by educational reformers to provide new perspectives on this history. The author challenges the common assumption that men and women clerks had separate work cultures and demonstrates how each had to balance elements of manhood and womanhood in the drive toward professionalism and the construction of a new middle-class image. Transcribing Class and Gender joins the recent scholarship that employs cultural studies approaches to class and gender without abandoning the social history valuation of workers' experiences. Carole Srole is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. Photo: A female stenographer working for an actuary in 1897. Courtesy Metlife Archives.
Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction in the Far Southwest, 1850-1950
Author: Mark T. BankerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252019296
Category : Church schools
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The primary concern of Banker's book is, as he states in its preface, "not the Presbyterian impact on the Southwest, but instead the impact of the Southwest on the Presbyterians."
Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its ... Regular Session
Author: IllinoisReports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois
Author: IllinoisBulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year Ended
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Author: Saint Louis (Mo.)
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