Description
Book SynopsisExamining 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 ReviewUsing 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 ContentsAcknowledgments
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
