7. Patriarchy Modified: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in York County, Ontario, 1880–1930

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword for reprint ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Contributors xv
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. Native Peoples and the Criminal Law
9. 2. Native Sovereignty and French Justice in Early Canada 17
10. 3. ‘The Queen’s Law is Better Than Yours’: International Homicide in Early British Columbia 41
11. 4. The Road from Bute Inlet: Crime and Colonial Identity in British Columbia 112
12. Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
13. 5. Violence, Marriage, and Family Honour: Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Marriage in New France 143
14. 6. Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Early Halifax, 1750–1800 174
15. 7. Patriarchy Modified: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in York County, Ontario, 1880–1930 207
16. 8. Prosecution of Abortions under Canadian Law, 1900–1950 252
17. Criminal Justice Institutions and State Authority
18. 9. Between The Old Order and Modern Times: Poverty, Criminality, and Power in Quebec, 1791–1840 293
19. 10. Rebel as Magistrate: William Lyon Mackenzie and His Enemies 324
20. 11. Violence, Law, and Community in Rural Upper Canada 353
21. 12. Crime and Punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871–1920 387
22. Canadian Prisons In The Nineteenth Century
23. 13. Prison as Factory, Convict as Worker: A Study of the Mid-Victorian St John Penitentiary, 1841–1880 439
24. 14. Prisoners for Profit: Convict Labour in the Ontario Central Prison, 1874-1915 478
25. 15. ‘To Govern by Kindness’: The First Two Decades of the Mercer Reformatory for Women 516
26. Index 573
27. Publications of the Osgoode Society 584