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In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970

In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970

Kinnear, Mary

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Social MovementsWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0773512799
ISBN13: 9780773512795
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 20 1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as professional. In this important historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.

Kinnear presents five case studies of professional women in Manitoba: university teachers, physicians, lawyers, nurses, and schoolteachers. Although the unrelenting efforts of nineteenth-century feminists won women access to higher education and the professions, the author reveals that most women, whether in male- or female-dominated professions, were forced to accept subordinate positions. They responded with acquiescence, indifference, resentment, or resistance. Kinnear considers the reasons for and the cost of these various strategies.

In addition to quantitative data culled from census and other records, Kinnear has collected testimony from more than two hundred professional women, a rich mine of information. A significant contribution to the growing literature on women and the professions, In Subordination helps explain why professional women continue to fight for equality today.

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