| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198) and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation As the twentieth century got under way in Canada,?young wage-earning women??working girls?? embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. Long after eastern Canada was considered settled and urbanized, the West continued to be represented as a frontier where the idea of the region as a society in the making added resonance to the idea of the working girl as social pioneer. Using an innovative interpretive approach that centres on literary representation, Lindsey McMaster heightens our understanding of a figure that fired the imagination of writers and observers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women employees in literature.
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Women employees in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women employees -- Canada, Western -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women employees. |
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Western Canada. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women -- Canada, Western -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Working Girls in the West. Univ of British Columbia Pr 2008 9780774814560 (OCoLC)225876212 |
| ISBN |
9780774855808 (electronic book) |
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0774855800 (electronic book) |
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9780774814560 |
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077481456X |
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