The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance
The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance

Author: Marjory MacMurchy Lady Willison

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance" by Marjory MacMurchy Lady Willison. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Framing Our Past
Framing Our Past

Author: Lorna R McLean

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001-05-14

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0773569111

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With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, such as social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups. The authors then focus on women's roles as nurturers and keepers of the hearth B their experiences with family management, child care, and health concerns. They consider women's varied contributions within formal and informal educational systems as well as their instrumental political role in consumer activism, social work, peace movements, and royal commissions. Canadian women's shaping of health care and science through nursing, physiotherapy and research are discussed, as is women's work, from domestic labour to dressmaking to broadcasting to banking. Using diary accounts, oral history, letters, organizational records, paintings, quilts, dressmaking patterns, milliners' records, posters, Framing our Past offers a unique opportunity to share what is rarely if ever seen, offering insights into the preservation and interpretation of historical sources.

The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract

Author: Lisa Adkins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1137495545

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This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.

Women Who Made the News
Women Who Made the News

Author: Marjory Lang

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0773567747

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The first newspaperwomen were employed to attract female subscribers and advertising revenue. Once hired, they found themselves confined to a narrow range of specialties that catered to conventionally defined women's interests - home-making, fashion, and high society - and most were patronized by their male peers. But these women journalists did more than simply deliver female consumers to advertisers. Some of them eventually made names for themselves as commercial reporters or political and even war correspondents. By making news about women for women, they created a distinctly female culture within the newspaper, chronicling the increasing participation of women in public affairs. Women Who Made the News is the story of the women who helped raise Canadian women's collective awareness of each other and of their achievements in the period leading up to World War II.

The Canadian Girl at Work a Book of Vocational Guidance
The Canadian Girl at Work a Book of Vocational Guidance

Author: Willison Marjory Macmurchy Lady

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781318896639

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Retail Nation
Retail Nation

Author: Donica Belisle

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0774819502

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The experience of walking down a store aisle -- replete with displays, advertisements, salespeople, consumer goods, and infinite choice -- is so common that we often forget retail stores barely existed a century ago. Retail Nation traces Canada’s transformation into a modern consumer nation back to an era when Eaton’s, Simpson’s, and the Hudson’s Bay Company ruled the shopping scene. Between 1890 and 1940, department stores revolutionized selling and shopping by parlaying cheap raw materials, business-friendly government policies, and growing demand for low-priced goods into retail empires that promised to strengthen the nation. Some citizens found happiness and fulfillment in their aisles; others experienced a cold shoulder and a closed door. Retail Nation showcases department stores as agents of nationalism and modernization but reveals that the nation they helped to define -- white, consumerist, middle-class -- was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

The Feminine Gaze
The Feminine Gaze

Author: Anne Innis Dagg

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 088920845X

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Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction? When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a few dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over 674 books. These women describe not only their country and its inhabitants, but a remarkable variety of other subjects: from the story of transportation to the legacy of Canadian missionary activity around the world. While most of the writers lived in what is now Canada, other authors were British or American travellers who visited Canada throughout the years and reported on what they found here. This compendium has brief biographies of all these women, short descriptions of their books, and a comprehensive index of their books’ subject matters. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 will be an invaluable research tool for women’s studies and for all who wish to supplement the male gaze on Canada’s past.