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• Title:Carnal crimes : sexual assault law in Canada, 1900-1975 / Constance Backhouse.
  
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• Author/Creator:Backhouse, Constance, 1952-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by Irwin Law, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KE8928 .B32 2008 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Rape--Canada--History--20th century.
  Sex crimes--Canada--History--20th century.
  Rape--Canada--Case studies.
  Sex crimes--Canada--Case studies.
  Sex discrimination against women--Canada--History--20th century.
  Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xi, 443 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781552211519 (cloth)
  1552211517 (cloth)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction
  2. "Don't You Bully Me Justice I Want if There Is Justice to Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907
  3. "On pensait que la fille etait bonne a rien": Fiola, 1917
  4. Prosecution of Henry Kissel in the Roaring Twenties in Halifax
  5. Sexual Battery: Gynecological Treatment in the Mercer Reformatory, 1939-40
  6. Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942
  7. Child Witnesses - "By Psychological Definition A Disservice to the True End of Justice": Souliere, 1951-52
  8. Canada's First Capital "L" Lesbian Sexual Assault: Yellowknife, 1955
  9. "Sordid" but "Understandable under the Circumstances": Kohnke, Croft, and Wilson, 1967
  10. "Imprisonment Would Be of No Assistance to the Accused": Angione, 1974
  11. Conclusion.