A Silent Revolution?: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Baskerville, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773534113 ISBN 13: 9780773534117

Publisher: Carleton University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as within broader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historiographical contexts. He analyses women's probates, wills, land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages, investment in stocks and bonds, and self employment, revealing that women controlled wealth to an extent similar to that of most men and invested and managed wealth in increasingly similar, and in some cases more aggressive, ways.

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About the Author

One of Canada's leading business social scientists, Peter Baskerville is professor of history, University of Victoria, in-coming chair of Modern Western Canadian History, University of Alberta, and the author of several books, including, with Eric Sager,

Review

"The analysis and discussion of the issues are of the highest order and interest - A Silent Revolution? is a major contribution to the field of women and gender history." Francoise Noel, director of the Institute for Community Studies and Oral History, Nipissing University "Potentially, one of the most important books in the last two decades in Canadian social history." David Burley, history, University of Winnipeg

Edition details

• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773534113
• ISBN 13: 9780773534117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384