Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Law and Society Series (Vancouver, B.C.).)

A broad-ranging examination of Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection explores the treatment of incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues. 1 'a Strange Revolution In The Manners Of The Country': Aboriginal-settler -- Intermarriage In Nineteenth-century British Columbia -- Jay Nelson -- 2 Control Of The Insane In British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, Or Confinement? -- Gerry Ferguson -- 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws And Racial/ -- Ethnic Minorities In British Columbia, 1871-1927 -- Mimi Ajzenstadt -- 4 Secrets And Lies: The Criminalization Of Incest And The (re)formation Of The 'private' In British Columbia, 1890-1940 -- Dorothy E. Chunn -- 5 'charity Is One Thing And The Administration Of Justice Is Another': Law And The Politics Of Familial Regulation In Early Twentieth-century -- British Columbia -- Robert Adamoski -- 6 Regulating The 'respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, And Public Health Initiatives In Canada, 1914-35 -- Renisa Mawani -- 7 Race, Reason, And Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile Of Chinese -- 'lunatics' Aboard The Empress Of Russia, 9 February 1935 -- Robert Menzies -- 8 The Politics Of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes And Regulating Women In Vancouver, 1939-45 -- Michaela Freund -- 9 The State, Child Snatching, And The Law: The Seizure And Indoctrination Of Sons Of Freedom Children In British Columbia, 1950-60 -- John Mclaren -- Postlude -- John Mclaren, Robert Menzies, And Dorothy E. Chunn Edited By John Mclaren, Robert Menzies, And Dorothy E. Chunn. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Machine generated contents note: 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / 23 Jay Nelson 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849-78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? / 63 Gerry Ferguson 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927 / 97 Mimi Ajzenstadt 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re)Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890-1940 / 120 Dorothy E. Chunn 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia / 145 Robert Adamoski 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35 / 170 Renisa Mawani 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 / 196 Robert Menzies 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45 / 231 Michaela Freund 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950-60 / 259 John McLaren Postlude / 294 John McLaren, Robert Menzies, and Dorothy E. Chunn Contributors / 309 Index / 311. Acknowledgments; Regulating Lives; Introduction; 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia; 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement?; 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927; 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890- 1940. 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth- Century British Columbia6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35; 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935; 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45. 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60Postlude; Contributors; Index. This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical and historical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, the contributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounters with the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history. Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues, are examined in these nine original essays.