Place and Politics of Virtue: Clerical Work, Corporate Anxiety, and Changing Meaning of Public Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal

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Title
Place and Politics of Virtue: Clerical Work, Corporate Anxiety, and Changing Meaning of Public Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal
Abstract
Working in the financial district of downtown Montreal at the turn of the twentieth century, women in clerical professions challenged formulations of respectability in an era when public, urban space was viewed as threatening to female virtue. Drawing on the popular press and employee files from a selection of key corporations, the author examines how women’s presence in, and use of urban space was mediated through ideas about “respectability.”
Publication
Gender, Place and Culture – A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume
Vol. 5
Issue
no. 3
Pages
261-275
Date
November 1998
Language
en
Citation
Boyer, Laura Kate. “Place and Politics of Virtue: Clerical Work, Corporate Anxiety, and Changing Meaning of Public Womanhood in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal.” Gender, Place and Culture – A Journal of Feminist Geography Vol. 5, no. 3 (November 1998): 261–275.
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