Disciplining Delinquints: Girlhood, Power and Punishment in Canadian History

JOAN SANGSTER presents the 7th Annual SEAGRAM LECTURE IN CANADIAN STUDIES. Dr. Sangster is the Seagram Visiting Chair for 2002-2003 at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and is a professor of History and Women?s Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, where she is also Director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies. Her latest books, Regulating Girls and Women: Women, Family and the Law in Ontario (Oxford University Press 2001) and Girl Trouble!: Female Delinquency in English Canada (Between the Lines Press, 2002) explore the history of womens? and girls? conflicts with the law, while her current research focuses on women workers after World War II. free admission