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Lindsey McMaster's dynamic new book, Working Girls in the West introduces readers to these girls, arguing that .

Lindsey McMaster's dynamic new book, Working Girls in the West introduces readers to these girls, arguing that working women at the turn of the twentieth century were the focus of intense public debate surrounding the perceived role of women. Through poetry, autobiography, newspapers and novels, McMaster reveals how these girls were represented in the popular media. Through examining literary representations of Canadian working girls, chapter 2 provides a unique insight into the social construction-both realism and romanticism-of working women.

Young wage-earning women - "working girls" .

Young wage-earning women - "working girls" - embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. These anxieties were amplified in the West. Working Girls in the West heightens our understanding of a figure that fired the imagination of writers and observers at the turn of the last century. These anxieties were amplifi As the twentieth century got underway in Canada, young women who entered the paid workforce became the focus of intense public debate.

Author of Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage Earning Women. John McLaren, Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Victoria. Phillippa Levine, co-director of the British Studies Department at the University of Texas in Austin

Author of Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage Earning Women. Phillippa Levine, co-director of the British Studies Department at the University of Texas in Austin. Author of Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. Marianna Valverde, Director and Professor at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology. Author of the Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1885-1925.

She examines a range of different types of textsnewspaper reports, reform and.

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Bibliographic Details. Main Author: McMaster, Lindsey. Canadian literature 20th century History and criticism. Canadian literature Canada, Western History and criticism. Women employees in literature. Women employees Canada, Western Social conditions 20th century. Women Canada, Western Social conditions 20th century.

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Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage Earning Women. Native Women's Association of Canada, Several national women's groups, such as the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centers. Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. Psychology Press 2003. The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1885-1925. University of Toronto 2008. At the same time a number of movements arose either advocating the eradication of sex work as exploitation, or for better protection of workers and decriminalisation based on human rights.

Women in the workforce earning wages or salary are part of a modern phenomenon, one that developed at the same time as the growth of paid employment for me. .

Women in the workforce earning wages or salary are part of a modern phenomenon, one that developed at the same time as the growth of paid employment for men, but women have been challenged by inequality in the workforce. Until modern times, legal and cultural practices, combined with the inertia of longstanding religious and educational conventions, restricted women's entry and participation in the workforce.