Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices Book

Contents

INTRODUCTION....................1
CHAPTER 1. Performing Independence: Male Clerks, Bookkeepers, and Stenographers from 1820 to 1870....................17
CHAPTER 2. Treasury Girls and the Masses: From Degraded Women Workers to Employees....................44
CHAPTER 3. Stepping-Stones and Short Ladders: Men's Faltering Independence....................71
CHAPTER 4. The Male Stenographers' Solution: The Language of Professionalism....................95
CHAPTER 5. Typewriter Girls and Lady Stenographers: The Challenges of Respectability....................129
CHAPTER 6. "My Fondest Hopes Will Have Been Realized": Independence, Ambition, and the New Woman....................160
CHAPTER 7. Performances of Professionalism....................190
EPILOGUE....................219
NOTES....................233
APPENDIX Abbreviations of Shorthand Journals....................301
Manuscript Collections....................301
Description and Linking of Sources....................302
Occupational Categories....................304
Tables....................305
INDEX....................317