| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1 Dentistry, Gender, and Profession Creation -- 2 The Rise of the Dental Profession in Ontario -- 3 Defining Dentistry -- 4 Enforcing the Dental Ideal -- 5 Professional Status, Ideology, and Gender: Dentistry 1900-1918 -- 6 Public Health, Public Education, Public Image -- 7 Gender and the Division of Dental Labour -- 8 On Becoming a Dentist: Dental Students 1903-1917 -- 9 Women in Dentistry -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Historical Sources -- Appendix 2 Women as a Percentage of Practitioners in Selected Male-Dominated Professions in Ontario, 1911-1996 -- Notes |
| Summary |
At one time considered a trade, dentistry gradually evolved and attained professional status, structured in such a way as to recruit middle-class white men; by definition, a professional was a gentleman. A unique and fascinating social history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dentistry -- Ontario -- History
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Dentistry -- Social aspects -- Ontario
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Sexual division of labor -- Ontario -- History
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Women dentists -- Ontario -- History
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Women dentists.
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Prejudices.
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Dentists, Women
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History of Dentistry
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Prejudice
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dentists.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Oral Health.
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MEDICAL -- Dentistry -- General.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Prejudices
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Dentistry
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Dentistry -- Social aspects
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Sexual division of labor
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Women dentists
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| SUBJECT |
Canada |
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Ontario
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001334306 |
| ISBN |
9781442670297 |
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1442670290 |
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