Title Regulating lives : historical essays on the state, society, the individual, and the law / edited by John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn

Published Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) Series Law and society series Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) Contents ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Regulating Lives""; ""Introduction""; ""1 �A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country�: Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""; ""2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement?""; ""3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927""; ""4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the �Private� in British Columbia, 1890- 1940"" ""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""""6 Regulating the �Respectable� Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35""; ""7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia�s Mass Exile of Chinese �Lunatics� aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935""; ""8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45"" ""9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60""""Postlude""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" Summary A broad-ranging examination of Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection explores the treatment of incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Social control -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century Social control -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century Law -- Social aspects -- British Columbia Social control -- British Columbia -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Law -- Social aspects Social control Social conditions Social policy SUBJECT British Columbia -- Social policy British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject British Columbia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author McLaren, John, 1940- Menzies, Robert J., 1951- Chunn, Dorothy E LC no. 2002437301 ISBN 9780774850261 0774850264 1283129728 9781283129725 077480887X 9780774808873 9786613129727 6613129720

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