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Female Economy
Mary Kinnear
其他書名
Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998-11-11
主題Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN07735672409780773567245
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8wgdK2tAGBQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.