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Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture) - Softcover

Book 40 of 95: Gender and American Culture

Richter, Amy G.

 
9780807855911: Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture)

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Richter describes the railroad in nineteenth-century America as a site and symbol of the shifts in the balance of gender, race, and class in American culture.

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Richter describes the railroad in nineteenth-century America as a site and symbol of the shifts in the balance of gender, race, and class in American culture.

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