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Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.

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Using an innovative mixture of literary and historical technique, McMaster's book successfully straddles the genres of literature, history, and gender studies to present an engaging look at young women in western Canada during the turbulent years of its explosive population growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Merle Massie, University of Saskatchewan * H-Canada *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Working Women in the West at the Turn of the Century

2 The Urban Working Girl in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature

3 White Slaves, Prostitutes, and Delinquents

4 Girls on Strike

5 White Working Girls and the Mixed-Race Workplace

Conclusion: Just Girls

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9780774814553, 978-0774814553
      ISBN10: 0774814551
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      Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.

      Trade Review
      Using an innovative mixture of literary and historical technique, McMaster's book successfully straddles the genres of literature, history, and gender studies to present an engaging look at young women in western Canada during the turbulent years of its explosive population growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Merle Massie, University of Saskatchewan * H-Canada *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 Working Women in the West at the Turn of the Century

      2 The Urban Working Girl in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature

      3 White Slaves, Prostitutes, and Delinquents

      4 Girls on Strike

      5 White Working Girls and the Mixed-Race Workplace

      Conclusion: Just Girls

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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