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Canadian women : a history / Gail Cuthbert Brandt ... [et al.].

Nelson Education, c2011.

305.4 C212c 2011

Women -- Canada -- History.

Women -- Canada -- Social conditions.

xi, 660 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm.

Previous ed.: 1996; first ed.: 1988.

Previous editions written by Alison Prentice ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Beginnings to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. The first women ; Women in New France ; "Plenty of work": women's waged and unwaged labour in British North America ; Women in the public order -- pt. 2. The Mid-Nineteenth Century to the End of the Great War. Industrial capitalism and women's work ; Women's sphere ; The "woman movement" ; The dawn of the century of feminism -- pt. 3. Land of New Opportunities? From 1918 to 1960. Women in the corporate economy ; Testing the boundaries ; Proving themselves in public life -- pt. 4. 1960 to the Present. New trends and old issues in women's work ; Changing lives in a changing society ; Reorganizing for change ; The personal becomes political.

Cuthbert Brandt, Gail.

Prentice, Alison L. Canadian women.

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