Home on the rails women, the railroad, and the rise of public domesticity
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| Sprache: | English |
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University of North Carolina Press
©2005
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| Schriftenreihe: | Gender & American culture
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index Narrative lines -- When spheres collide -- At home aboard -- A ladies' place -- Working for the railroad -- Nerves of steel Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence. White men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet preserved the railroad as a masculine domain |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 272 pages) |
| ISBN: | 080787647X 9780807876473 |