Queer Judgments

Queer Judgments
Author: Bruce MacDougall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802079145

MacDougall sifts through hundreds of reported and unreported cases of the past four decades in order to uncover the subjective assumptions and biases operating in Canadian courts.

Strangers in Our Midst

Strangers in Our Midst
Author: Elise Chenier
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2008-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442691514

Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era, in which an unshakable faith in science convinced many Canadian parents that pedophilia could be cured. Strangers in Our Midst explores the popularization of the notion of sexual deviancy as a way of understanding sexual behaviour, the emergence in Canada of legislation directed at sex offenders, and the evolution of treatment programs in Ontario. Popular discourses regarding sexual deviancy, legislative action against sex criminals, and the implementation of treatment programs for sex offenders have been widely attributed to a reactionary, conservative moral panic over changing sex and gender roles after the Second World War. Elise Chenier challenges this assumption, arguing that, in Canada, advocates of sex-offender treatment were actually liberal progressives. Drawing on previously unexamined sources, including medical reports, government commissions, prison files, and interviews with key figures, Strangers in Our Midst offers an original critical analysis of the rise of sexological thinking in Canada, and shows how what was conceived as a humane alternative to traditional punishment could be put into practice in inhumane ways.

One of the Boys

One of the Boys
Author: Paul Jackson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773582649

A new edition of a book that has changed the way we think about sexual conduct and combat.

Canadian Health Care and the State

Canadian Health Care and the State
Author: David Naylor
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1992-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773563598

The contributors include prominent specialists in medical, military, and labour history, who provide valuable examinations of such issues as the ideological origins of the welfare state, the experience of the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and the development of neuropsychology during the Second World War. Several essays are particularly relevant to contemporary concerns. A history of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Canada, extended to include present-day research, reveals underlying flaws in the approach to STDs taken by Canadian governments and the medical establishment. The comparative development of health insurance in Canada and the United States is discussed in another essay. Other authors provide a historical and critical review of a key assumption of Canadian Medicare: that universal first-dollar coverage will enhance equity in the use of health services and in health status. In addition to David Naylor, who writes the Introduction, the contributors are Robin F. Badgley, Jay Cassel, Terry Copp, Raisa B. Deber, Colin D. Howell, Stephen J. Kunitz, Desmond Morton, Eugene Vayda, Samuel Wolfe, and Judith Young.

Routledge Revivals: Homosexuality: A Research Guide (1987)

Routledge Revivals: Homosexuality: A Research Guide (1987)
Author: Wayne R. Dynes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351984780

First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality — displaying a full spectrum of points of view — and, given that the major traditions of modern homosexual research began in Europe, is not restricted to works in English.. In general topics that are densely covered in the literature are presented in this guide selectively, with some less studied topics, such as Economics and Music, fleshed out with signposts to more comprehensive research. It seeks to not only mirror existing publications, but also to stimulate new work by pinpointing neglected themes and methods. This book will be of interest to students of sociology.

Rape

Rape
Author: Joanna Bourke
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1582434662

Joanna Bourke takes the issue of rape out from the academic ghettos and distills the truth so often exploited to sell newspapers. Neither prurient nor overly sympathetic, she investigates rape from a historical standpoint examining the history of sexual aggression, the idea of rape as a social construct, and the often–ignored idea of embodiment, and analyzes the physical response of rapists as well as the often–cited "rape is about power" theories. Indebted to a growing body of sophisticated feminist analyses about rape victims, Bourke here shifts the emphasis from the victims to the perpetrators in order to place rapists in their historical context. An invaluable study, this book delivers the hard truth that if we are to imagine a world free of unwanted sexual violence, then we must consider the issue of rape from every angle.