Home on the Rails : Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity / Amy G. Richter
Language: English
Published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005
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An exceptional copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; Description: xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-255) and index. Series: Gender and American culture. Subjects: Railroads --Social aspects --Sex role --Women --United States --History --19th century 1 Kg.
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- Title
- Home on the Rails : Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity / Amy G. Richter
- Author
- Richter, Amy G.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807829269
- ISBN 13
- 9780807829264
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Series
- Book 40 of 95: Gender and American Culture
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 to make themselves “at home.”
Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car décor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves “at home” aboard the trains, 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 still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.
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