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

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, BC, : UBC Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.330971
• Soggetto topico: Social control - British Columbia - History - 19th century; Social control - British Columbia - History - 20th century; Law - Social aspects - British Columbia
• Soggetto geografico: British Columbia Social policy; British Columbia Social conditions 19th century; British Columbia Social conditions 20th century
• Altri autori: McLarenJohn <1940-> MenziesRobert J. <1951-> ChunnDorothy E
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Regulating lives
• ISBN: 1-283-12972-8; 9786613129727; 0-7748-5026-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822477103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)