Petticoats and prejudice : women and law in nineteenth-century Canada
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0889611610
ISBN 13
9780889611610
DDC
346.7101
Category
Osgoode Society
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
xiv, 467 pages
Subject
Women and the law
Abstract
"This is the first comprehensive work in the field of Canadian women's legal history. Author Constance Backhouse, an internationally-recognized authority on Canadian women's legal history, has compiled here the most important of her decade's worth of research. This highly-readable book highlights the status of women through in-depth case profiles of individual women who were swept up into the 19th century legal process as litigants, accused criminals and witnesses. The cases span the country, providing information about all the common law provinces as well as Quebec."--Pub. (Osgoode Society)
Description
Content:
Part I : The regulation of marriage, courtship and sexual violence -- 1. The ceremony of marriage -- 2. Seduction -- 3. Rape -- Part II : Fertility -- 4. Infanticide -- 5. Abortion -- Part III : The Nineteenth-century family -- 6. Divorce and separation -- 7. Child custody -- Part IV : Women's work in the paid labour force -- 8. Prostitution -- 9. Protective labour legislation -- 10. Lawyering : Clara Brett Martin, Canada's first woman lawyer.
Part I : The regulation of marriage, courtship and sexual violence -- 1. The ceremony of marriage -- 2. Seduction -- 3. Rape -- Part II : Fertility -- 4. Infanticide -- 5. Abortion -- Part III : The Nineteenth-century family -- 6. Divorce and separation -- 7. Child custody -- Part IV : Women's work in the paid labour force -- 8. Prostitution -- 9. Protective labour legislation -- 10. Lawyering : Clara Brett Martin, Canada's first woman lawyer.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-453) and index.
Number of Copies
1
