Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity

Guest, Katie Rose, Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA)

Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity Amy G. Richter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

In Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, Amy G. Richter traces the effects of the emergence of the railroad on American Victorian life. She focuses on the role that women played in the expansion of the railroad and in the development of its ethos. Although women did not help design and build the railroad, by their very presence, they helped craft its culture. Because of the social interaction that occurred in railroad cars, the railroad became a symbol of the "uniquely American love of togetherness" …

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Publication information: Article title: Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Contributors: Guest, Katie Rose - Author. Journal title: Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA). Volume: 28. Issue: 4 Publication date: December 2005. Page number: 444+. © 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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