Sex and the Office : A History of Gender, Power, and Desire Hardback
by Julie Berebitsky
Part of the Society and the Sexes in the Modern World series
Hardback
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In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S.
Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances.
This range of evidence and the study’s long scope expose both notable transformations and startling continuities in the interplay of gender, power and desire at work.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, 20 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780300118995
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, 20 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300118995
