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Our voices must be heard : women and the vote in Ontario
Our Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontario's suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.
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Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario
Until this century, married women had no legal right to hold, use, or dispose of property. Since the ownership of property is a critical measure of social status, the married women's property acts of the nineteenth century were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women. Reform campaigns represented the first organized attempts by women in Upper Canada to challenge their status in society. Ironically, emancipation was not the first goal of reformers: their demands reflected a concern with protection from economic instability. The laws granting women new rights and privileges were designed to force men to behave more responsibly and to mitigate the worst hardships imposed upon wives by abusive or negligent husbands.
The most detailed and complete account of married women's property law reform yet written for any North American jurisdiction, this fascinating study will be of interest to those in the areas of law, women's studies, and nineteenth-century social history.
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Regulating Girls and Women
In this fascinating study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sangster focuses on key issues that drew women into the courts, as plaintiffs and defendants: incest and sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, female delinquency, and the unique 'colonization of the soul' that Aboriginal women had to endure before the law.
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The Technoscientific Witness of Rape
The Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book to chart
the thirty-year history of the sexual assault evidence kit and its
role in a criminal justice system that re-victimizes many assault
victims in their quest for medical treatment and justice.
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Women Workers, Employment Policy and the State: The Establishment of the Ontario Women's Bureau, 1963-1970
In 1963, the Ontario Government established a Women's Bureau within the Department of Labour to do research, public relations work, and policy development relating to working women in the province. This article examines the early evolution of the Women's Bureau from 1963 to 1970 assessing the reasons for its establishment and the successes and failures of its early programs designed to aid working women. The Bureau urged the government to consider anti-discrimination legislation, and in 1970 it helped to develop new legislation designed to enhance women's equality by legalizing maternity leave, banning discrimination based on marital status, and abolishing job posting by sex. Drawing on recent debates about the state and employment policy, particularly those looking at the relationship between feminist and labour activists and the state, this article asks whose interests the Bureau represented, and whether or not this state-initiated legislation designed to enhance gender equality was effective, either in the short or long term. /// En 1963, le gouvernement ontarien établit un Bureau des femmes au sein du Département du Travail pour effectuer la recherche, le travail de relations publiques et la préparation de politiques concernant les femmes actives de la province. Cet article examine l'évolution de ce Bureau entre 1963 et 1970 pour comprendre les raisons de son établissement et les succès et échecs de ses premiers programmes visant à venir en aide aux Ontariennes. Le Bureau pressa le gouvernement de considérer des mesures anti-discriminatoires et, en 1970, il contribua à la préparation d'une nouvelle loi visant à accroître l'égalité des femmes. Cette loi légalisa le congé de maternité, interdit la discrimination basée sur le statut marital et abolit la définition de postes selon le sexe. Cet article s'appuie sur les débats récents portant sur l'État et la politique d'emploi, particulièrement ceux concernant la relation entre féministes et militants ouvriers, et l'État, pour demander quels intérêts le Bureau cherche-t-il à représenter et si les mesures initiées par l'État pour accroître l'égalité de genre étaient efficaces à court et à moyen terme.
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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\" by Joan Sangster is reviewed.
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Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960
IN 2001, 99 per cent of spousal abuse victims were women and 80 per cent of sexually abused children were young girls (Statistics Canada). As [Joan Sangster] reveals in Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960, things were hardly different in mid-20th century Ontario. In this thematic study of incest, wife assault, prostitution, and delinquency, Sangster explores the legal regulation of women, sexuality, and the family. Her purpose is twofold: first, to examine how the legal system, swathed by comforting words like protection, assessed criminality using dominant race, sexuality, class, and gender norms; and, to explore \"... the everyday, particular, lived experiences of the law in women's lives.\" (195) As a materialist feminist, Sangster must grapple with the issues raised most famously in the Joan Scott-Linda Gordon debate (Signs, 1990): how can scholars reconcile a deconstruction of discourse and power with the lived reality of abuse? Siding with Gordon, who asserts that scholars, irrespective of theoretical leanings, can not ignore the emotional and physical scars of violence, Sangster recognizes the actuality of abuse. Rejecting the idea that domination in law, family, and society was ever complete, she emphasizes women's agency. What emerges is a study that provides an empirical reconstruction of women's experiences and highlights the \"plurality of meanings\" that result from the dynamic relationship between society and the law. (194) Incest, wife assault, prostitution, and delinquency raise difficult issues about surveillance and protection. Certainly, the courtroom statements of incest victims suggest that regulation, however feeble it may be, is important. But, the question of how to protect women is harder to answer. In wife assault cases, women tended to use the law to regulate rather than escape male violence; prostitution continued, as did female delinquency. Sangster suggests that women's resistance, conveyed in their use of the legal system to punish transgressions, their denials and frank quips in the courtroom, their use of family need to explain prostitution, and their defiance of Christian western ideals and cultural continuity, provides an important dimension to our understanding of women's experience of the law.
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