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

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Initial Hooks -- 1. Performing Independence: Male Clerks, Bookkeepers, and Stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- 2. Treasury Girls and the Masses: From Degraded Women Workers to Employees -- II. Final Hooks -- 3. Stepping-Stones and Short Ladders: Men's Faltering Independence -- 4. The Male Stenographer's Solution: The Language of Professionalism -- 5. Typewriter Girls and Lady Stenographers: The Challenges of Respectability -- 6. "My Fondest Hopes Will Have Been Realized": Independence, Ambition, and the New Woman -- 7. Performances of Professionalism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix -- Abbreviations of Shorthand Journals -- Manuscript Collections -- Description and Linking of Sources -- Occupational Categories -- Tables -- Index.

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.

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