by Joan Sangster
"For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil - the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over these years, however, was the differential treatment that females and males received before the law, especially in regard to family matters and sexuality. A patriarchal justice system, increasingly under the influence of 'expert' opinion from social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other medical doctors, openly espoused a sexual double standard and sought to regulate the behaviour of girls and women 'for their own good'. Indeed, women in physically abusive relationships were at times advised by judges, probation officers, and social workers to 'go home and sleep with your husband' on the assumption that keeping him sexually sated would end the violence." "In this study of sexuality, family, and the law, historian Joan Sang
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Zora Neale Hurston
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