This thesis represents a selective consideration of the
relationships between gender, space and the law in early
twentieth century Vancouver, based largely on the cases of
sexual violence against women heard before the B.C. Supreme
Court in the years between 1915 and 1925. Within these
parameters, constructions of space and gender are addressed at
three levels. Part one considers how both women and men were
situated within early twentieth century legal discourse in the
context of trials for sexual violence. Part two suggests how
gendered understandings of urban space in early urban
Vancouver were produced and reinforced within, and beyond,
legal discourse. Finally, part three situates these processes
within a wider context of statemaking in early twentieth
century British Columbia. It is argued that legal processes
were one mechanism by which space in fledgling Vancouver was
coded in gendered and sexualized terms, and further, that
these social meanings of space were fundamentally bound up
with prevailing conceptions of race and class.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4940 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Boyer, Laura Kate |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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