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Swimming in the Steno Pool : A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office, Paperback / softback Book

Swimming in the Steno Pool : A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Millions of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work.

From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capitol Hill offices during the Civil War to today's tech-savvy administrative assistants, secretaries have withstood criticism for abandoning their rightful sphere (the home), weathered the dubious advice of secretarial guide-books, taken hits from feminists and antifeminists alike, and demanded the right to resist making coffee-all while making their bosses look good. In Swimming in the Steno Pool, author-secretary Lynn Peril profiles the various incarnations of the secretary, from pliable, sexy mate of the "office husband" to postfeminist executive-in-training, drawing inspiration from a wide range of "femorabilia" and secretarial guidebooks of yesteryear.

Featuring an array of fabulous illustrations promoting office equipment and office girls alike, Peril delivers a feisty, witty celebration of the women who've been running the show for decades.

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