Sex Cells: Women's Paths to Institutionalization in the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, 1902 -1935

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dc.contributor.advisorReaume, Geoffrey
dc.creatorRaymond, Theresa Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-01T13:52:58Z
dc.date.available2018-03-01T13:52:58Z
dc.date.copyright2017-06-27
dc.date.issued2018-03-01
dc.date.updated2018-03-01T13:52:57Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractFocussing on twelve womens experiences culled from patient files of the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, this thesis interrogates the use and abuse of the alternative dispositions that were available in gendered statutes between 1902 and 1935, which diverted women away from or out of Ontario jails and into reformative and correctional facilities, and ultimately into mental health institutions. The examination of federal and provincial legislation, specifically The Hospitals for the Insane Act, the Juvenile Delinquents Act, The Industrial Schools Act, the Criminal Code, The Andrew Mercer Reformatory Act, and The Female Refuges Act, demonstrates the complicated, and occasionally contradictory, interrelationship of the statutes which enabled the process of committing and transferring women into consecutive institutions, resulting in more severe and lengthier confinements than would have followed if detained under the provisions in the Criminal Code.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34300
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subject.keywordsInsanity
dc.subject.keywordsFeeble-minded
dc.subject.keywordsWomen
dc.subject.keywordsOntario
dc.subject.keywordsReformative and correctional facilities
dc.subject.keywordsAsylums
dc.subject.keywordsMental health history
dc.subject.keywordsFemale Refuges Act
dc.subject.keywordsHospitals for the Insane Act
dc.subject.keywordsIndustrial Schools Act
dc.titleSex Cells: Women's Paths to Institutionalization in the Hospital for the Insane, Cobourg, 1902 -1935
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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