Carnal crimes : sexual assault law in Canada, 1900-1975 /

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Author / Creator:	Backhouse, Constance, 1952-
Imprint:	Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by Irwin Law, 2008.
Description:	xi, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Rape -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Sex crimes -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Rape -- Canada -- Case studies. Sex crimes -- Canada -- Case studies. Sex discrimination against women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada -- History -- 20th century. Rape. Sex crimes. Sex discrimination against women. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Canada. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7486690

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Other authors / contributors:	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
ISBN:	9781552211519 1552211517
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-436) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. "Don't You Bully Me ... Justice I Want if There Is Justice to Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907
3. "On pensait que la fille etait bonne a rien": Fiola, 1917
4. The Prosecution of Henry Kissel in the Roaring Twenties in Halifax
5. Sexual Battery: Gynecological Treatment in the Mercer Reformatory, 1939-40
6. Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942
7. Child Witnesses - "By Psychological Definition ... A Disservice to the True End of Justice": Souliere, 1951-52
8. Canada's First Capital "L" Lesbian Sexual Assault: Yellowknife, 1955
9. "Sordid" but "Understandable under the Circumstances": Kohnke, Croft, and Wilson, 1967
10. "Imprisonment Would Be of No Assistance to the Accused": Angione, 1974
11. Conclusion
Notes
Index

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