A silent revolution? gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-368) and index 1. Gender, Wealth, and Investment: Victoria and Hamilton, 1869-1931-- 2. Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton, 1880-1930 -- 3. The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 1860-1911 -- 4. The 'fountain-head of all production': Land and Gender in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1901 -- 5. Stretching the Liberal State: Legal Regimes, Gender, and Mortgage Markets in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1921 -- 6. Gender, Credit, and Consumption: The Market for Chattels in Victoria, 1861-1902 -- 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 "A Silent Revolution? 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. 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."--Book cover |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 375 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780773574458 077357445X 9780773534117 0773534113 |