Regulating Girls and Women

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Regulating Girls and Women is written by Joan Sangster and published by University of Toronto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195416635 (ISBN 10) and 9780195416633 (ISBN 13).

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.