Constance Backhouse: Petticoats & Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada

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Constance Backhouse : Petticoats & Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada

Women's Press, 1991

ISBN 0889611610

Book is in excellent condition in handsome burgandy cloth with gold sparkles, gilt print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. The section headings followed by chapters in parentheses are: The regulation of marriage, courtship & sexual violence ( The ceremony of Marriage, Seduction, Rape ):Fertility (Infanticide, Abortion); The 19th century family (Divorce and separation, Child Custody),; Women's work in the paid labour force (Prostitution, Protective labour legislation, Lawyering: Clara Brett Martink, Canada's first woman lawyer). Women's Studies. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine

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