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Regulating Girls and Women : Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960.

In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sangster focuses on key issues that drew women into the courts, as plaintiffs and defendants: incest and sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, female delinquency, and the unique 'colonization of the soul' that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sangster, Joan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Canadian social history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Incest, the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the Power of Familialism
  • 3 Rhetoric of Shame, Reality of Leniency: Wife Assault and the Law
  • 4 Prostitution and Promiscuity: Sexual Regulation and the Law
  • 5 'Out of Control': Girls in Conflict with the Law
  • 6 Native Women, Sexuality, and the Law
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y.