Place and the politics of virtue: clerical work, corporate anxiety, and changing meanings of public womanhood in early twentieth-century Montreal

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 261-275

  Boyer, Kate ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Geography and Planning ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL HISTORY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC;

EID: 0032436811     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663699825205     Document Type: Article

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