Feminized Justice

The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-34

AvAmanda Glasbeek

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

In 1913, Toronto launched an experiment in feminist ideals: a woman's police court. The court offered a separate venue to hear cases that involved women and became a forum where criminalized women – prostitutes, vagrants, alcoholics, and thieves – met and struggled with the meaning of justice.This multifaceted portrait of the court's business and its people – from its inception by middle-class, maternal feminists to its demise in 1934, from the repeat offender to its controversial magistrate, Margaret Patterson – reveals the experiment's fundamental contradiction. The court was both a site for feminist adaptations of justice and a court empowered to punish the women who appeared on its docket.Feminized Justice sheds new light on maternal feminist politics, women and crime, and the role of resistance, agency, and experience in the justice system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-10
Mått:159 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Law and Society
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774817110

Utforska kategorier

Rättsordning inom Juridik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Rättshistoria inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Amanda Glasbeek is an assistant professor of criminology in the Department of Social Science at York University.

Recensioner i media

Glassbeek's book is an important addition to feminist colloquy as well as feminist inquiry...[a] comprehensive and insightful explanation of how and why a path paved with good intentions became a dead end. - Judith A. Baer, Texas A&M University (Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 20, No 7)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 The Toronto Women's Police Court as an Institution2 Feminism, Moral Equality, and the Criminal Law: The Women's Court as Feminized Justice3 "The badness of their badness when they're bad": Women, Crime, and the Court4 "What chance is there for a girl?" Vagrancy and Theft Charges in the Women's Court5 "Up again, Jenny?" Repeat Offenders in the Women's Court6 "Can her justice be just?" Margaret Patterson, Male Critics, and Female Criminals, 1922–34ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex