Regulating Girls and Women

Regulating Girls and Women
Title Regulating Girls and Women PDF eBook
Author Joan Sangster
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 292
Release 2001-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780195416633

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Analyzing key examples of the sexual and familial regulation (through the law) of girls and women in twentieth-century Canada, this work explores the ways in which class, race, and gender shape the definition and punishment of criminality. It also examines the changing social and legal definitions of "normal" versus "criminal" sexual and family relationships, using case studies of incest, childhood sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, girls in conflict with the law, and Native women and the law.

Bad Women

Bad Women
Title Bad Women PDF eBook
Author Janet Staiger
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 250
Release 1995
Genre Cinema
ISBN 9781452902678

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On female sexual morality

Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes

Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes
Title Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes PDF eBook
Author Marilyn E. Hegarty
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 263
Release 2010-04-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0814737390

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"While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated, women who used their sexuality - either intentionally or inadvertently - to serve their country encountered a contradictory morals campaign launched by government and social agencies, which shunned female sexuality while valorizing masculine sexuality. This double standard was accurately summed up by a government official who dubbed these women "patriotutes": part patriot, part prostitute."

Regulating Desire

Regulating Desire
Title Regulating Desire PDF eBook
Author J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9781438453040

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Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women's sexuality in the United States.

Regulating Prostitution in China

Regulating Prostitution in China
Title Regulating Prostitution in China PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth J. Remick
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 289
Release 2014-03-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0804790833

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities. Intervention by way of prostitution regulation connected the local state, politics, and gender relations in important new ways. The decisions that local governments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the structures and capacities of the state. This book examines how the ways in which local government chose to shape the institution of prostitution ended up transforming local states themselves. It begins by looking at the origins of prostitution regulation in Europe and how it spread from there to China via Tokyo. Elizabeth Remick then drills down into the different regulatory approaches of Guangzhou (revenue-intensive), Kunming (coercion-intensive), and Hangzhou (light regulation). In all three cases, there were distinct consequences and implications for statebuilding, some of which made governments bigger and wealthier, some of which weakened and undermined development. This study makes a strong case for why gender needs to be written into the story of statebuilding in China, even though women, generally barred from political life at that time in China, were not visible political actors.

Rethinking Violence against Women

Rethinking Violence against Women
Title Rethinking Violence against Women PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Emerson Dobash
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 289
Release 1998-09-11
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1452250553

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Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundations, this cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Under the skillful editorship of Rebecca Emerson and Russell P. Dobash, Rethinking Violence Against Women is the joint effort of recognized anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and historians in the field. Divided in three parts, this text takes a comprehensive examination of the following topics: +

Breadwinning Daughters

Breadwinning Daughters
Title Breadwinning Daughters PDF eBook
Author Katrina Srigley
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 225
Release 2010-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 1442610034

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Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.