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- catalog abstract ""This is the first comprehensive work in the field of Canadian women's legal history. Author Constance Backhouse, an internationally-recognized authority on Canadian women's legal history, has compiled here the most important of her decade's worth of research. This highly-readable book highlights the status of women through in-depth case profiles of individual women who were swept up into the 19th century legal process as litigants, accused criminals and witnesses. The cases span the country, providing information about all the common law provinces as well as Quebec."--Pub. (Osgoode Society).".
- catalog alternative "Petticoats & prejudice.".
- catalog contributor b3294041.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""This is the first comprehensive work in the field of Canadian women's legal history. Author Constance Backhouse, an internationally-recognized authority on Canadian women's legal history, has compiled here the most important of her decade's worth of research. This highly-readable book highlights the status of women through in-depth case profiles of individual women who were swept up into the 19th century legal process as litigants, accused criminals and witnesses. The cases span the country, providing information about all the common law provinces as well as Quebec."--Pub. (Osgoode Society).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-453) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I : The regulation of marriage, courtship and sexual violence -- 1. The ceremony of marriage -- 2. Seduction -- 3. Rape -- Part II : Fertility -- 4. Infanticide -- 5. Abortion -- Part III : The Nineteenth-century family -- 6. Divorce and separation -- 7. Child custody -- Part IV : Women's work in the paid labour force -- 8. Prostitution -- 9. Protective labour legislation -- 10. Lawyering : Clara Brett Martin, Canada's first woman lawyer.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 467 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Petticoats and prejudice.".
- catalog identifier "0889611610 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Petticoats and prejudice.".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto, Ont., Canada : Published for the Osgoode Society by Women's Press,".
- catalog relation "Petticoats and prejudice.".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog subject "342.71/0878/09034 347.10287809034 20".
- catalog subject "KE225 .B33 1991".
- catalog subject "Sex discrimination against women Law and legislation Canada History.".
- catalog subject "Trials Canada.".
- catalog subject "Women Legal status, laws, etc. Canada History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I : The regulation of marriage, courtship and sexual violence -- 1. The ceremony of marriage -- 2. Seduction -- 3. Rape -- Part II : Fertility -- 4. Infanticide -- 5. Abortion -- Part III : The Nineteenth-century family -- 6. Divorce and separation -- 7. Child custody -- Part IV : Women's work in the paid labour force -- 8. Prostitution -- 9. Protective labour legislation -- 10. Lawyering : Clara Brett Martin, Canada's first woman lawyer.".
- catalog title "Petticoats & prejudice.".
- catalog title "Petticoats and prejudice : women and law in nineteenth-century Canada / Constance Backhouse.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".