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Swimming in the Steno Pool
Lynn Peril
A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office
W. W. Norton & Company
May 2011
On Sale: April 25, 2011
291 pages
ISBN: 0393338541
EAN: 9780393338546
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your
heels trip you up on the corporate ladder.
Millions of women have held the position of secretary,
alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and
excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers
who infiltrated Capitol Hill offices during the Civil War to
today’s tech-savvy administrative assistants, secretaries
have withstood criticism for abandoning their rightful
sphere (the home), weathered the dubious advice of
secretarial guide- books, taken hits from feminists and
antifeminists alike, and demanded the right to resist making
coffee—all while making their bosses look good. In Swimming in the Steno Pool, author-secretary Lynn Peril
profiles the various incarnations of the secretary, from
pliable, sexy mate of the “office husband” to postfeminist
executive-in-training, drawing inspiration from a wide range
of “femorabilia” and secretarial guidebooks of yesteryear.
Featuring an array of fabulous illus- trations promoting
office equipment and office girls alike, Peril delivers a
feisty, witty celebration of the women who’ve been running
the show for decades. 42 black-and-white illustrations
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