TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richter,Amy G.
TI  - Home on the rails: women, the railroad, and the rise of public domesticity 
T2  - Gender and American culture
SN  - 9780807829264
AV  - HE2751 .R53 2005eb
U1  - 303.48/32/097309034 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Railroads
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Femmes
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Social Aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Reizigers
KW  - Spoorwegen
KW  - Persoonlijke levenssfeer
KW  - Openbaar leven
KW  - 15.85 history of America
KW  - bcl
KW  - Eisenbahn
KW  - gnd
KW  - Frau
KW  - Geschlechterrolle
KW  - USA
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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