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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Explores how urban women managed wealth at a time when they were thought to have little independence - including economic - and shows that women were in fact important players in the world of capital.
Full Description
The increasing involvement of women in business and finance in turn-of-the-century urban Canada.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction; 1 Gender, Wealth, and Investment: Victoria and Hamilton, 18691931; 2 Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton, 18801930; 3 The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 18601911; 4 The fountain-head of all production: Land and Gender in Victoria and Hamilton, 18811901; 5 Stretching the Liberal State: Legal Regimes, Gender, and Mortgage Markets in Victoria and Hamilton, 18811921; 6 Gender, Credit, and Consumption: The Market for Chattels in Victoria, 18611902; 7 Canadian Urban Women in Business; 8 A Retail Dry Goods Merchant on My Own Separate Account: Gender and Family Enterprise in Urban Canada at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Conclusion