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

Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960
ISBN-10
0195416635
ISBN-13
9780195416633
Category
History
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2001-01-01
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Author
Joan Sangster

Description

Analyzing key examples of the sexual and familial regulation (through the law) of girls and women in twentieth-century Canada, this work explores the ways in which class, race, and gender shape the definition and punishment of criminality. It also examines the changing social and legal definitions of "normal" versus "criminal" sexual and family relationships, using case studies of incest, childhood sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, girls in conflict with the law, and Native women and the law.

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