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Sex and the Office : A History of Gender, Power, and Desire.

Berebitsky, Julie.

Sex and the Office : A History of Gender, Power, and Desire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (374 pages)

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Dangers, Desires, and Self-Determination: Competing Narratives of the Sexual Culture of the New, Gender-Integrated Office -- 2. White-Collar Casanovas: Gender, Class, and (Hetero)sexuality in the Office, 1861 to World War II -- 3. Betwixt and Between: New Freedoms and New Risks in the Sexually and Psychologically Modern Office -- 4. Gold Diggers, Innocents, and Tempted Wives: The Skyscraper in Fiction and Film -- 5. Morals and Morale: Managing Sex in Business, World War II to the Early 1960s -- 6. The White-Collar Revolution: Helen Gurley Brown, Sex, and a New Model of Working Womanhood -- 7. Desire or Discrimination? Old Narratives Meet a New Interpretation -- 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Wanted and Unwelcome Advances After "Sexual Harassment" -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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9780300183276


Women employees -- United States -- History.


Electronic books.

HD6053 -- .B47 2012eb

331.40973

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