Review of A Female Economy: Women’s Work in a Prairie Province, 1870 - 1970 , by Mary Kinnear.

Authors

Nanci Langford, University of Alberta

Date of this Version

March 2000

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 162 - 163. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Abstract

A Female Economy analyses how women disposed of their labor during the century from 1870 to 1970 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. This ambitious project, the culmination of Mary Kinnear's interests and activities in the history of women's work, reflects the skills of a mature scholar who has lived with the material for decades.