Berebitsky, Julie,

Sex and the office : a history of gender, power, and desire / Julie Berebitsky. - x, 359 páginas : ilustraciones ; 25 cm. - Society and the sexes in the modern world . - Society and the sexes in the modern world. .

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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´.

0300118996 9780300118995


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331.40973 / B487s 2012