Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario / / Elise Chenier
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| Autore: |
Chenier Elise Rose <1967->
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| Titolo: |
Strangers in our midst : sexual deviancy in postwar Ontario / / Elise Chenier
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.15/30971309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex crimes - Ontario - History - 20th century |
| Paraphilias - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
| Sex offenders - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
| Paraphilias - Treatment - Ontario - History - 20th century | |
| Sex and law | |
| Sex | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ontario |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Electronic books. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Theories -- 1. Criminal Sexual Psychopathy: The Birth of a Legal Concept -- 2. Social Citizenship and Sexual Danger -- 3. Surveying Sex: The Royal Commission on the Criminal Law Relating to Criminal Sexual Psychopaths -- pt. 2. Practices -- 4. Mad and the Bad: Treating Sexual Deviation -- 5. Sex Deviant Treatment in Ontario Prisons -- 6. Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Limits of Forensic Sexology. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Strangers in Our Midst offers an original critical analysis of the rise of sexological thinking in Canada, and shows how what was conceived as a humane alternative to traditional punishment could be put into practice in inhumane ways. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Strangers in our midst |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9151-4 |
| 1-4426-8922-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781118703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in gender and history ; ; 32.