Bøger af 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.

Canadian Women in the Skytraces a century of Canadian women's progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut's second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to achieve their dreams.