Wives and mothers, schoolmistresses and scullery maids : working women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840 /

"Jane Errington argues that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial period has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians, and illustrates how the work they did, particularly as wives and mothers, played a significant role in the development of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Errington, Elizabeth Jane, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
1800-1899
Women > Ontario > Social conditions.
Women > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Women > Employment > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Femmes > Ontario > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Ontario > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Travail > Ontario > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Women.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Vrouwen.
Arbeid.
Ontario.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 Prologue: The Howling Wilderness and Fruitful Fields
  • PART ONE: AROUND THE DOMESTIC HEARTH: WIVES AND MOTHERS AND REPRODUCTION IN UPPER CANADA
  • 2 The Most Important Crisis: Marriage in Upper Canada
  • 3 A Fountain of Life to Her Children: Mothering in Upper Canada
  • PART TWO: WOMAN IS A BIT OF A SLAVE IN THIS COUNTRY: THE HOUSEWIFE AND HER HELP
  • 4 Prime Minister of the House: Colonial Housekeepers
  • 5 The Ordinary Sort of Canadian Servant: Helping and the Neighbour's Girl
  • PART THREE: A SENSE OF DECORUM AND SERVICE: THE WORLD OF THE COLONIAL ARISTOCRACY6 No End to the Wants: Living and Working in the Big House
  • 7 Social Obligations and Angelic Ministrations: Society Matrons and Crusading Ladies
  • PART FOUR: BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF DOMESTICITY: SURROGATE HUSBANDS AND INDEPENDENT BUSINESS WOMEN
  • 8 Requesting Their Patronage: Milliners, Mantuamakers, and Wage-earning Women in Upper Canada
  • 9 Ladies' Academies and Seminaries of Respectability: Training Good Women of Upper Canada
  • 10 Epilogue
  • Appendix One: Patterns of Women's Part-time EmploymentAppendix Two: Women in the Needle Trades in York, Upper Canada
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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