Regulating girls and women : sexuality, family, and the law in Ontario, 1920-1960 / Joan Sangster
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University, 2001
Descript
viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
CONTENT
Incest, the sexual abuse of children, and the power of familialism -- Rhetoric of shame, reality of leniency: wife assaulty and the law -- Prostitution and promiscuity: sexual regulation and the law -- 'Out of control': girls in conflict with the law -- Native women, sexulity, and the law
SUBJECT
Sex and law -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century
Sex dicrimination in justice administration -- Canada
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Ontario