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Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire / Julie Berebitsky.

By: Series: Society and the sexes in the modern worldPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.Description: x, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300118995 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.40973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6053 .B47 2012
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".
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD6053 .B47 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001215119

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".

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