A Silent Revolution?: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 - Baskerville, Peter

As New; This book explores how urban women managed wealth in the period from 1860 to 1930 - a time when they were thought to have little independence - and shows that women were in fact important players in the world of capital. Traditional historiography has highlighted women's fight to acquire cultural and political rights during this period, but it is less well known that women acquired and exercised many economic rights as well. In doing so they put pressure on men to reconceptualize the notion of middle class and women's proper place.
As New
Soft cover
McGill-Queen's University Press
2008
Montreal, QC