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Home on the rails : women, the railroad, and the rise of public domesticity / Amy G. Richter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807829264
  • 0807829269
  • 080787647X
  • 9780807876473
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Home on the rails.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/32/097309034 22
LOC classification:
  • HE2751 .R53 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • NW 2708
  • NW 3370
  • NW 8100
Online resources:
Contents:
Narrative lines -- When spheres collide -- At home aboard -- A ladies' place -- Working for the railroad -- Nerves of steel.
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Summary: 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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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.

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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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