株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Domestic Reforms : Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862 - 1940.
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British Columbia inherited a legal system that granted married mencontrol over most family property and imposed few obligations on themtoward their wives and children. Yet from the 1860s onward, lawmakersthroughout the Anglo-American world, including legislators on thePacific Coast, began to grant women and children new rights.Domestic Reforms deftly analyzes the impact of thelegislation, with emphasis on the ambitions of regulated populations,the influence of the judiciary, and the social and fiscal concerns ofgenerations of legislators and bureaucrats.