Regulating lives
Subtitle: historical essays on the state, society, the individual, and the law
By: edited by John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn.
Contributors: McLaren, John, 1940-; Menzies, Robert J., 1951-; Chunn, Dorothy E.
Series: Law and society series; Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Vancouver, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Social control -- British Columbia -- History -- 19th century.; Social control -- British Columbia -- History -- 20th century.; Law -- Social aspects -- British Columbia.; British Columbia -- Social policy.; British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / 23; title: Jay Nelson; title: 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? / 63; title: Gerry Ferguson; title: 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / 97; title: Mimi Ajzenstadt; title: 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re)Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890-1940 / 120; title: Dorothy E. Chunn; title: 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 / 145; title: Robert Adamoski; title: 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / 170; title: Renisa Mawani; title: 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 / 196; title: Robert Menzies; title: 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45 / 231; title: Michaela Freund; title: 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60 / 259; title: John McLaren; title: Postlude / 294; title: John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn; title: Contributors / 309; title: Index / 311.