Böcker av Elizabeth Gillan Muir

Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women's activities were -- from owning taverns, schools, and market gardens to working as doctors, musicians, and butchers.

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church.