Regulating lives : historical essays on the state, society, the individual, and the law

McLaren, John, 1940- (Added Author). Menzies, Robert J., 1951- (Added Author). Chunn, Dorothy E. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 077480887X (pbk.)
ISBN: 0774808861
Physical Description: vi, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
print
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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/Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / Mimi Ajzenstadt -- 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 is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early-Twentieth-Century British Columbia / Robert Adamoski -- 6. Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / Renisa Mawani -- 7. Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' Aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 / Robert Menzies -- 8. The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45 / Michaela Freund -- 9. The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60 / John McLaren.