Sex and the Office

A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

Julie Berebitsky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2025 | Second Edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9141-1 (ISBN)

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This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in the US workplace. Between 1870 and 1970, white-collar office work became the leading form of employment for American women. As more and more women took office jobs, men and women workers attempted to make sense of this new environment where the workplace became a site of gendered power negotiations: Emotional and sexual desires entangled with "rational" operating procedures.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including government investigation reports, scandal papers, memoirs, and advice literature, Julie Berebitsky describes how women perceived and responded to male desire and discrimination in the office. She also offers keen insight into how popular media —cartoons, advertisements, and a wide array of fictional accounts— represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances in the workplace.

Now in paperback for the first time, this compelling edition includes a foreword that brings Berebitsky's work into the present, where the Trump presidencies, MeToo movement, and global pandemic provide striking illustrations of the book's enduring relevance. An afterword reflects on Berebitsky's lasting impact as a feminist, teacher, and scholar in the fields of labor history and women's studies.

Julie Berebitsky was professor of history and founding director of the women's and gender studies program at Sewanee: The University of the South. Katherine Turk is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Katherine Parkin is professor of history and the Jules Plangere, Jr. Endowed Chair in American Social History at Monmouth University. Julie Berebitsky was professor of history and founding director of the women's and gender studies program at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2025
Nachwort	Katherine Parkin
Vorwort	Katherine Turk
Zusatzinfo	20 illustrations - 20 halftones, notes, index - 20 Halftones, unspecified - Index
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4696-9141-8 / 1469691418
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9141-1 / 9781469691411
Zustand	Neuware