Regulating Girls and Women : Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960.

In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sangster focuses on key issues that drew women into the courts, as plaintiffs and defendants: incest and sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, female delinquency, and the unique 'colonization of the soul' that...

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Main Author: Sangster, Joan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Series:Canadian social history series.
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