"Neither forget nor remember your sex": Sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 212-229

  Boyer, Kate ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; RELIGION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

CANADA;

EID: 0037708438     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhge.2002.0418     Document Type: Article

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