Regulating Lives : Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law Hardback
Edited by Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn
Part of the Law and Society series
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This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moralregulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.
Informed by the wealth of theoretical andhistorical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, thecontributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounterswith the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history.Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcoholregulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and theseizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues,are examined in these nine original essays. This collection will interest scholars, researchers, practitioners,and students of a wide range of contexts including law, history,sociology, criminology, women’s studies, Native studies, socialwork, and political science.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 3 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780774808866
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, 3 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774808866
