Regulating Girls and Women : : Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960 / / Joan Sangster.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Incest, the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the Power of Familiasm
- 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
- Backmatter