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

For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil - the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sangster, Joan, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Incest, the sexual abuse of children, and the power of familialism
  • Rhetoric of shame, reality of leniency : wife assault and the law
  • Prostitution and promiscuity : sexual regulation and the law
  • "Out of control" : girls in conflict with the law
  • Native women, sexuality, and the law
  • Conclusion.