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Domestic reforms : political visions and family regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940 /
"Domestic Reforms tells a complicated story of family and welfare law reform within the context of British Columbia's transformation from a British colonial enclave to a white settler Canadian province. It inherited a British legal system that granted married men control over most family p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver [B.C.] :
UBC Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Yeoman Dream
- 1 Deserted Wives and Independent Men
- 2 Married Women, Country Wives, and Destitute Orphans
- 3 Chivalry and the Democratic Judiciary
- Part 2: A Vision of Mutualistic Hierarchy
- 4 Creditors� Rights, the 1887 Married Women�s Property Act, and the Emergence of a Liberal Femininity
- Part 3: The Conservation of Child-Life
- 5 Maintaining the “Hope of the Race�: Child-Saving in a Conservative Era, 1901-15
- 6 Child Protection and Women�s Equality in the Liberal Era, 1916-237 Public Policy, Published Decisions, and Police Courts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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