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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457108703321

Titolo

Regulating lives [[electronic resource] ] : historical essays on the state, society, the individual, and the law / / edited by John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, BC, : UBC Press, c2002

ISBN

1-283-12972-8

9786613129727

0-7748-5026-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Law and society series

Altri autori (Persone)

McLarenJohn <1940->

MenziesRobert J. <1951->

ChunnDorothy E

Disciplina

303.330971

Soggetti

Social control - British Columbia - History - 19th century

Social control - British Columbia - History - 20th century

Law - Social aspects - British Columbia

Electronic books.

British Columbia Social policy

British Columbia Social conditions 19th century

British Columbia Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Regulating Lives; Introduction; 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia; 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement?; 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927; 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890- 1940

5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth- Century British Columbia6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal



Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35; 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935; 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45

9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60Postlude; Contributors; Index