Westward Bound : Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society / Lesley Erickson.
2011
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Title
Westward Bound : Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society / Lesley Erickson.
Imprint
Vancouver ; Toronto : University of British Columbia Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Description
1 online resource (360 p.) : 13 b&w photos and illustrations, 3 maps, 12 tables.
Series
Law and Society.
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fruitful Land, Happy Homes, Manly Titans
They Know No Better
The Most Public of Private Women
The Farmer, the Pioneer Woman, and the Hired Hand
For Family, Nation, and Empire
The Might of a Good Strong Hand
She Is to Be Pitied, Not Punished
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Law and Society
Contents
Figures and Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fruitful Land, Happy Homes, Manly Titans
They Know No Better
The Most Public of Private Women
The Farmer, the Pioneer Woman, and the Hired Hand
For Family, Nation, and Empire
The Might of a Good Strong Hand
She Is to Be Pitied, Not Punished
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Law and Society
Summary
In the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in North America. While the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer reputation symbolized by the Mounties' legendary triumph over chaos. 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. Lesley Erickson reveals that judges' and juries' responses to the most intimate or violent acts reflected a desire to shore up the liberal order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native peoples and newcomers, and capital and labour. Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour. The results, Erickson shows, were predictable but never certain. This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.
Language Note
In English.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Source of Description
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Title is part of eBook package: ACUP Upgrade eBook-Package 2011 - 2010 De Gruyter
Title is part of eBook package: University of British Columbia eBook-Package 2013-2000 De Gruyter
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Language
English
ISBN
9780774818605
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