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Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)
Amy G. Richter
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Description for Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)
Paperback. 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. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1; KNGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm - a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove ... Read more
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm - a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807855911
SKU
V9780807855911
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About Amy G. Richter
Amy G. Richter is assistant professor of history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. The dissertation on which this book is based won the 2001 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
Reviews for Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)
"Home on the Rails fills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book." - H. Roger Grant, Clemson University"