Westward Bound

Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society

AvLesley Erickson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-08-29
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Law and Society
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774818582
Utmärkelser:Commended for Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize 2012 (Canada)

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Lesley Erickson is a historian and editor who specializes in the history of gender, law, and nation building in western Canada.

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Fascinating ... Erickson's substantive incorporation of elements beyond the text, including courthouse architecture, prairie visual culture, and police photography, also enliven her discussion of legal and sociocultural developments ... scholars of western Canadian legal, sex-trade, and cultural history will find this book a valuable and engaging addition to both teaching and research. - Laurie K. Bertram, University of Alberta (Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012) This exploration of hegemony and resistance debunks the myth of Canada's peaceful settlement of the West. (Prairie Books Now, No. 59, Summer 2012)

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordIntroduction1 Fruitful Land, Happy Homes, Manly Titans: Settlement Frontiers, Law, and the Intimate in Colonialism and Nation Building2 They Know No Better: Maintaining Race and Managing Domestic Space at the Fringes of Civilization3 The Most Public of Private Women: Prostitutes, Reformers, and Police Courts4 The Farmer, the Pioneer Woman, and the Hired Hand: Sexual Violence, Seduction, and the Boundaries of Class5 For Family, Nation, and Empire: Policing Drugs, Abortion, and Heterosexuality in the Interwar City6 The Might of a Good Strong Hand: Domestic Violence, Wife Murder, and Incest7 She Is to Be Pitied, Not Punished: The Murderess, the Woman Question, and the Capital Punishment DebateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex