Petticoats and prejudice
Subtitle: women and law in nineteenth-century Canada
By: Constance Backhouse.
Publisher: Published for the Osgoode Society by Women's Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont., Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Trials -- Canada; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- History; Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History
Other titles: Petticoats & prejudice.
Description: "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).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index.
Cover title: Petticoats & prejudice.