Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34, 1st Edition eBook

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In 1913, Toronto launched an experiment in feminist ideals: a woman’s police court. The court offered a separate venue to hear cases that involved women and became a forum where criminalized women and feminists met and struggled with the meaning of justice. The court was run by and for women, but was it a great achievement? Amanda Glasbeek’s multifaceted portrait of the cases, defendants, and officials that graced its halls reveals a fundamental contradiction at the experiment’s core: the Toronto Women’s Police Court was both a site for feminist adaptations of justice and a court empowered to punish women. Reconstructed from case files and newspaper accounts, this engrossing portrait of the trials and tribulations that accompanied an early experiment in feminized justice sheds new light on maternal feminist politics, women and crime, and the role of resistance, agency, and experience in the criminal justice system.

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Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34 1st Edition is written by Amanda Glasbeek and published by UBC Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Feminized Justice are 9780774817134, 0774817135 and the print ISBNs are 9780774817110, 0774817119. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780774859097.