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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society (Law and Society Series Published in association with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
Lesley Erickson
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| #4870112 in Books | 2012-01-24 | 2012-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x1.10 x5.90l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 360 pages|||By comparing and contrasting various areas of law, this book makes new links between race, gender, and class that are missing in works with a narrower focus ... An important contribution to existing literature.| - Lori Chambers, Women's Studies,
Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada's peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to criminal cases involving women between 1886 and 1940. Erickson's analysis of these cases shows that, rather than a desire to protect, official responses to the most intimate or violent acts betrayed an impulse to maintain boundaries between men and women, Native people and newcomer...
You easily download any file type for your device.Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society (Law and Society Series Published in association with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) | Lesley Erickson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
