Caught - Montreal''s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945

Informationen zum Autor Tamara Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext 'Exploring the lives of -delinquent- girls in Montreal, "Caught "integrates an analysis of class, ethnicity, and gender into a comprehensive and sensitive account of girls' conflicts with the law, their criminalization, and their incarceration. Based on extensive research, Tamara Myers's study is an important and insightful contribution to Canadian women's, legal, social, and youth history.'-Joan Sangster, Professor of Women's Studies and History, Trent University Zusammenfassung Caught exposes the attempts made by the juvenile justice system of the day to curb modern attitudes and behaviour; at the same time! it reveals the changing patterns of social and family interaction among adolescent girls.

Product details

• Authors: Tamar Myers, Tamara Myers
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2006
• EAN: 9780802092199
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9219-9
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous