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100 1 $aMcMaster, Lindsey,$d1972-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008031308
245 10 $aWorking girls in the West :$brepresentations of wage-earning women /$cLindsey McMaster.
260 $aVancouver :$bUBC Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
263 $a0712
300 $ax, 209 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.190 -198) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tWorking Women in the West at the Turn of the Century -- $g2.$tThe Urban Working Girl in Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Literature -- $g3.$tWhite Slaves, Prostitutes, and Delinquents -- $g4.$tGirls on Strike -- $g5.$tWhite Working Girls and the Mixed-Race Workplace -- $tConclusion: Just Girls.
520 1 $a"As the Twentieth century got underway in Canada, young women who entered the paid workforce became the focus of intense public debate. Young wage-earning women - "working girls" - embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. These anxieties were amplified in the West. Long after eastern Canada was considered settled and urbanized, the West continued to be represented as a frontier where the idea of the region as a society in the making added resonance to the idea of the working girl as social pioneer." "Using an interpretive approach that centres on literary representation, Lindsey McMaster takes a fresh look at the working heroine of western Canadian literature alongside social documents and newspaper accounts of her real-life counterparts. Working Girls in the West heightens our understanding of a figure that fired the imagination of writers and observers at the turn of the last century."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWomen employees in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009194
650 0 $aWomen in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147587
650 0 $aWomen employees$zCanada, Western$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen$zCanada, Western$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
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