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AB -  IE W Sex in the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire Julie Berebitsky New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012 x + 359 pp., $38.00 (cloth) Julie Berebitsky concludes her study of sex, gender, and the office in the United States over a period of more than a hundred years with the rather depressing observations that women continue to be seen as "women first, workers second" and that attitudes toward sex in the office show some discouraging continuities: "the way many Americans think about sex, gender and power is surprisingly similar to what it was well over a century ago" (296). Her book traces not only attitudinal continuities but also the shifts in cultural thinking about sex in the office over this period. With its ambitious chronological reach and its impressive grounding in multiple sources, this book is an important and valuable contribution to our understanding of the gendered white-collar workplace as it was constructed, understood, and managed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Berebitsky begins her study with the first women hired by the US Treasury in the 1860s and ends with some contemporary observations, including about the media treatments of sexual scandals 
TI - A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights
JO - Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
DO - 10.1215/15476715-2411074
DA - 2014-06-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/a-philip-randolph-and-the-struggle-for-civil-rights-Hihta0TVFd
SP - 112
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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