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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781135203321

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical and historical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, the contributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounters with the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history. Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues, are examined in these nine original essays. This collection will interest scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students of a wide range of contexts including law, history, sociology, criminology, women's studies, Native studies, social work, and political science.