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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10080785591X
ISBN-139780807855911
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038814305
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Book TitleHome on the Rails : Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Railroads / History, United States / 19th Century, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Publication Year2005
IllustratorYes
FeaturesNew Edition
GenreTransportation, Social Science, History
AuthorAmy G. Richter
Book SeriesGender and American Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width7.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-016552
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsHome on the Railsfills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book.-H. Roger Grant, Clemson University, A work that is intellectually rich, amply documented and contains enough social history on the conditions of rail cars, behaviors of passengers, and Americans' love of travel to merit it a place alongside more traditional historiography on American railroads. -- Journal of Transport History, A stylish, original and entertaining interpretation of the domestication and commodification of public life on the rails at the end of the nineteenth century. Amy Richter's engaging voice will draw in students, and her arguments about the gendered transformation of public space in Victorian America will spark conversations among scholars at all levels.—Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University, This is not your parents' railroad history. . . . [ Home on the Rails ] breathes life into an old, often stale debate about the role of the ideology of separate spheres in the lives of women. -- Technology and Culture, "[A] major contribution to women's studies as well as transportation and social history. [Richter] has creatively used sources, including the rich archives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the self-proclaimed 'Standard Railroad of the World.' The concept of public domesticity is historically important and carefully explored in this well-written and expertly illustrated volume." -- Historian, "A groundbreaking contribution to the history of women and the railroad, Richter's meticulous research and lucid prose illuminate the passage from Victorian America to modern times, the nuanced layers of private lives and separate spheres, and the public culture and corporate strategy that show the remaking of the life and landscape of nineteenth-century America--a terrain where the New Woman took her seat on the Twentieth Century Limited and began the journey anew." -- Indiana Magazine of History, Home on the Railsfills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book.—H. Roger Grant, Clemson University, "A groundbreaking contribution to the history of women and the railroad, Richter's meticulous research and lucid prose illuminate the passage from Victorian America to modern times, the nuanced layers of private lives and separate spheres, and the public culture and corporate strategy that show the remaking of the life and landscape of nineteenth-century America--a terrain where the New Woman took her seat on the Twentieth Century Limited and began the journey anew." -Indiana Magazine of History, "A fine work of cultural history, broadly conceived and imaginatively researched." -The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, A stylish, original and entertaining interpretation of the domestication and commodification of public life on the rails at the end of the nineteenth century. Amy Richter's engaging voice will draw in students, and her arguments about the gendered transformation of public space in Victorian America will spark conversations among scholars at all levels. (Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University), Home on the Rails fills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book. --H. Roger Grant, Clemson University, Heading Home fills a considerable void in the history of trains and travel. Fresh material and a crisp writing style make for a useful and delightful book. (H. Roger Grant, Clemson University), "A fine work of cultural history, broadly conceived and imaginatively researched." —The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, "A fine work of cultural history, broadly conceived and imaginatively researched." -- The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, A stylish, original and entertaining interpretation of the domestication and commodification of public life on the rails at the end of the nineteenth century. Amy Richter's engaging voice will draw in students, and her arguments about the gendered transformation of public space in Victorian America will spark conversations among scholars at all levels. --Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University, "A groundbreaking contribution to the history of women and the railroad, Richter's meticulous research and lucid prose illuminate the passage from Victorian America to modern times, the nuanced layers of private lives and separate spheres, and the public culture and corporate strategy that show the remaking of the life and landscape of nineteenth-century America--a terrain where the New Woman took her seat on the Twentieth Century Limited and began the journey anew." --Indiana Magazine of History, "[A] major contribution to women's studies as well as transportation and social history. [Richter] has creatively used sources, including the rich archives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the self-proclaimed 'Standard Railroad of the World.' The concept of public domesticity is historically important and carefully explored in this well-written and expertly illustrated volume." -Historian, "[A] major contribution to women's studies as well as transportation and social history. [Richter] has creatively used sources, including the rich archives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the self-proclaimed 'Standard Railroad of the World.' The concept of public domesticity is historically important and carefully explored in this well-written and expertly illustrated volume." --Historian, A stylish, original and entertaining interpretation of the domestication and commodification of public life on the rails at the end of the nineteenth century. Amy Richter's engaging voice will draw in students, and her arguments about the gendered transformation of public space in Victorian America will spark conversations among scholars at all levels.-Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University, A work that is intellectually rich, amply documented and contains enough social history on the conditions of rail cars, behaviors of passengers, and Americans' love of travel to merit it a place alongside more traditional historiography on American railroads.-Journal of Transport History, This is not your parents' railroad history. . . . [Home on the Rails] breathes life into an old, often stale debate about the role of the ideology of separate spheres in the lives of women.-Technology and Culture
Dewey Decimal303.48/32/097309034
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisRecognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.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., Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.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 decor 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., Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. 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., Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence. 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 preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.
LC Classification NumberHE2751.R534 2005
