A female economy : women's work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970 / Mary Kinnear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinnear, Mary, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Manitoba--History.

Women.

Women--Manitoba--Social conditions.

Sexual division of labor--Manitoba--History.

Sexual division of labor.

Feminist economics.

Sex role--Manitoba--History.

Sex role.

Women--Manitoba--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kinnear details how ordinary women - including early pioneers, East European immigrants, Native women, and professional women - lived and what they thought of the world of work, often telling their stories in their own words. She highlights the cultural and economic expectations for women and juxtaposes the activities society deemed suitable for women with what they actually did. Kinnear argues that a host of factors, such as class and ethnicity, differentiated their choices but that these women shared many common experiences. While women's own views furnish the main theme, A Female Economy contributes to a developing debate in feminist economics. By focusing on women's experiences in the sexually segregated economy of a Canadian province at the geographic centre of Canada, Kinnear furnishes a paradigm for women's economic activity in most western industrializing societies at the time.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Parameters

"Foreigners on Someone Else's Ground"

Prescriptions

Education and Training

Homemaking

Farm Work

Paid Labour

Public Service Work

Looking Back

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-210) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85510-7

9786612855108

0-7735-6724-0

OCLC:

732600916