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Author:
Berebitsky, Julie.
Title:
Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire / Julie Berebitsky.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
x, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Women--History--United States--History--20th century.
Women employees--United States--History.
Sex role--United States--History--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Dangers, desires, and self-determination : competing narratives of the sexual culture of the new, gender-integrated office -- White-collar casanovas : gender, class, and (hetero)sexuality in the office, 1861 to World War II -- Betwixt and between : new freedoms and new risks in the sexually and psychologically modern office -- Gold diggers, innocents, and tempted wives : the skyscraper in fiction and film -- Morals and morale : managing sex in business, World War II to the early 1960s -- The white-collar revolution : Helen Gurley Brown, sex, and a new model of working womanhood -- Desire or discrimination? : old narratives meet a new interpretation -- Two steps forward, one step back : wanted and unwelcome advances after "sexual harassment".
Series:
Society and the sexes in the modern world
ISBN:
0300118996 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300118995 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)739646477
LCCN:
2011026337
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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