In Subordination
Professional Women, 1870-1970
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 1995
256 pages
978-0-7735-6523-4 (ISBN)
Description
From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as "professional." In this important historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.
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02/1995
McGill-Queen's University Press
€160.70
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University of Manitoba
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Professions, Evidence, and Gender in General
- 2 Discourse by Default: Women University Teachers
- 3 Medicine: "Tough Old Birds
- 4 Law: "That There Woman Lawyer
- 5 Nursing: "One of the Truest and Noblest Callings
- 6 Teachers: A Majority in the Margins
- 7 In Retrospect: "Delighted to Be Accepted
- APPENDICES
- 1 Tables
- 2 Survey Respondents
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
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