Regulating Lives

Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law

Edited by Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Series: Law and Society

Imprint: UBC Press

320 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 3 tables

Paperback
9780774808873
Published: January 2003

£28.99

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Hardcover
9780774808866
Published: June 2002

£84.00

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Acknowledgments

Introduction / John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E.Chunn

1. 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country':Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia/ Jay Nelson

2. Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure,or Confinement? / Gerry Ferguson

3. Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/EthnicMinorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / MimiAjzenstadt

4. Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the(Re)Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia,1890-1940 / Dorothy E. Chunn

5. 'Charity is One Thing and the Administration of Justice isAnother': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation inEarly-Twentieth-Century British Columbia / Robert Adamoski

6. Regulating the "Respectable" Classes: Venereal Disease,Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / RenisaMawani

7. Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exileof Chinese 'Lunatics' Aboard the Empress of Russia, 9February 1935 / Robert Menzies

8. The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and RegulatingWomen in Vancouver, 1939-45 / Michaela Freund

9. The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure andIndoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60/ John McLaren Postlude / John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and DorothyE. Chunn

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