Research Catalog

Title

A silent revolution? : gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 / Peter Baskerville.

Author

Baskerville, Peter A.

Publication

Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008.

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Details

Description

viii, 375 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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.

Alternative Title

Gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Geschichte 1860-1930
• Women > Canada > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Women > Canada > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Women > Employment > History > Canada > 19th century
• Women > Employment > History > Canada > 20th century
• Marital property > Canada > History
• Women > British Columbia > Victoria > Economic conditions > 19th century > Case studies
• Women > British Columbia > Victoria > Economic conditions > 20th century > Case studies
• Women > Ontario > Hamilton > Economic conditions > 19th century > Case studies
• Women > Ontario > Hamilton > Economic conditions > 20th century > Case studies
• Marital property
• Women > Economic conditions
• Women > Employment
• Arbeitsverhältnis
• Frau
• Wirtschaftliche Lage
• Kvinnor > ekonomiska förhållanden > historia > Kanada > 1800-talet > 1900-talet
• Kvinnor > arbete och arbetsmarknad > historia > Kanada > 1800-talet > 1900-talet
• British Columbia > Victoria
• Canada
• Ontario > Hamilton
• Englisches Sprachgebiet
• Kanada

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-368) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780773534117
• 0773534113
• 9780773534704
• 0773534709

LCCN

2009277189

OCLC

• ocn191889786
• 191889786
• SCSB-1485168

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library