Feminized Justice
The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34
Seiten
2009
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1711-0 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1711-0 (ISBN)
Drawing on case files and newspapers accounts of women’s confrontations with the law in the Toronto Women’s Police Court, Feminized Justice offers a multifaceted portrait of women, crime, and courts in early twentieth-century Toronto.
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.
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.
Amanda Glasbeek is an assistant professor of criminology in the Department of Social Science at York University.
Introduction
1 The Toronto Women’s Police Court as an Institution
2 Feminism, Moral Equality, and the Criminal Law: The Women’s Court as Feminized Justice
3 “The badness of their badness when they’re bad”: Women, Crime, and the Court
4 “What chance is there for a girl?” Vagrancy and Theft Charges in the Women’s Court
5 “Up again, Jenny?” Repeat Offenders in the Women’s Court
6 “Can her justice be just?” Margaret Patterson, Male Critics, and Female Criminals, 1922–34
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reihe/Serie | Law and Society |
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Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 480 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-1711-9 / 0774817119 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-1711-0 / 9780774817110 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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