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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Law and Society)

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Regulating Lives looks on the roles of the state, society, the person, and the law Within the regulation of private and non-private life. In nine original essays, the authors apply the concepts of social keep an eye on, moral regulation, and governmentality, as developed by influential social theorists such as Stanley Cohen, Michel Foucault, and Philip Corrigan, to the particular conditions that prevailed in early British Columbia. Along a span of nearly a century and a half – and across a diversity of topics including intermarriage, mental disorder, prohibition, incest, children’s aid, venereal disease, prostitution, and compulsory education – the essays collectively affirm the power of these ideas to explain the intricate relations that developed, and survive, between British Columbians and the political, social, and cultural order that surrounds them. Within the process, they reveal the boundless potential of the west coast province as a web site for such historical expeditions into the terrain of the state, society, the person, and the law.

This collection will interest scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students across a variety of contexts, including law, history, sociology, criminology, women’s studies, Native studies, social work, and political science.

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