Feminized Justice

The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-34

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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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

Utgivningsdatum2009-11-10
Mått159 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw and Society
Antal sidor240
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774817110

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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