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Lesley Erickson - Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society - 9780774818582 - V9780774818582
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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society

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Description for Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society Hardback. Through the study of hundreds of criminal cases, Westward Bound explores how encounters between the courts and ordinary people on the Canadian Prairies contributed to the construction of race, class, and gender hierarchies in a settler society. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 336.

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 ... Read more

This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818582
SKU
V9780774818582
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
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
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