| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Mary Kinnear. A Female Economy: Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 215. $55.00.

Women's work has been a major discovery of the last twenty-five years of historical and interdisciplinary scholarship around the world. Interest in female labor has been a touchstone of Canadian women's history, particularly distinguished as it has been by close ties to labor studies. Scholars' early interest and participation in the "domestic labor" debates ensured that understanding readily encompassed recognition of the links between labor performed in the home and elsewhere. Feminist investigators have charted patriarchy's routinized privileging of men in the performance and remuneration of paid and unpaid work from the French regime to the present. Mary Kinnear's earlier explorations of the experiences of professional, farm, and suffrage women on the Canadian prairie, like her biography of the noted Manitoba activist, Margaret McWilliams, supplied a significant part of this quarter-century of recovery. Trained as a historian of eighteenth-century British politics, Kinnear turned her attention in the 1970s first to broad-ranging investigations, producing Daughters of Time: Women in the Western Tradition (1982), and then to the largely unknown history of the women of her home province, Manitoba. Her leadership, both in research and in making direct connections to the international world of feminist scholarship, has been influential in establishing western Canadian women's history. . . .

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