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Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960

Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960

Sangster, Joan

Paperback

Series: Canadian Social History

Canadian HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1487523076
ISBN13: 9781487523077
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 2001
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil - the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential treatment that females and males received before the law, especially in regard to family matters and sexuality. A patriarchal justice system, increasingly under the influence of 'expert' opinion from social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other medial doctors, openly espoused a sexual double standard and sough to regulate the behaviour of girls and women 'for their own good'. Indeed, women in physically abusive relationships were at times advised by judges, probation officers, and social workers to 'go home and sleep with your husband' on the assumption that keeping him sexually sated would end the violence.

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