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Regulating lives : historical essays on the state, society, the individual, and the law / edited by John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Law and society series, 1496-4953
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social control--British Columbia--History.
- Social control.
- Law--Social aspects.
- Law.
- Social policy.
- History.
- British Columbia--Social policy.
- British Columbia.
- Law--Social aspects--British Columbia.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / Jay Nelson 23
- 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? / Gerry Ferguson 63
- 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / Mimi Ajzenstadt 97
- 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re)Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890-1940 / Dorothy E. Chunn 120
- 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia / Robert Adamoski 145
- 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / Renisa Mawani 170
- 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 / Robert Menzies 196
- 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45 / Michaela Freund 231
- 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60 / John McLaren 259
- Postlude / John McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn 294.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0774808861
- 077480887X
- OCLC:
- 49727455
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