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

by Joan Sangster

Overview

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 Aboriginal women had to endure before the law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487523077
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/2001
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Joan Sangster is a professor in the Departments of History and Women's Studies at Trent University.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
1	Introduction	1
2	Incest, the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the Power of Familialism	17
3	Rhetoric of Shame, Reality of Leniency: Wife Assault and the Law	47
4	Prostitution and Promiscuity: Sexual Regulation and the Law	85
5	'Out of Control': Girls in Conflict with the Law	131
6	Native Women, Sexuality, and the Law	168
7	Conclusion	194
	Note on Sources	205
	Notes	209
	Index	272

Editorial Reviews

"Regulating Girls and Women makes a sigificant contribution to the theoretical and sustantive literature in women's history and socio-legal studies. . . the book's clarity of style and well articulated analysis make it a useful text for upper level courses in women's studies, sociology, and women's history. This is a valuable book and useful addition to a growing legal scholarship in women's history."—Left History

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