Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire /
Berebitsky, Julie.
Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire / Julie Berebitsky. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012. - x, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Society and the sexes in the modern world .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9780300118995 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011026337
Women--Employment--History--United States--20th century.
Women employees--History.--United States
Sex role--History--United States--20th century.
HD6053 / .B47 2012
331.40973
Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire / Julie Berebitsky. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012. - x, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Society and the sexes in the modern world .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9780300118995 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011026337
Women--Employment--History--United States--20th century.
Women employees--History.--United States
Sex role--History--United States--20th century.
HD6053 / .B47 2012
331.40973