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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442676060
035 _a(DE-B1597)464559
035 _a(OCoLC)944177984
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_b.S63 1991
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082 0 4 _a306.89/0971
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSnell, James G.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aIn the Shadow of the Law :
_bDivorce in Canada 1900-1939 /
_cJames G. Snell.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1991]
264 4 _c©1991
300 _a1 online resource (322 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aThe sanctity of marriage and family life was vvirtually beyond question in the eyes of Canadian society during the early part of the twentieth century. Powerful elements within society had created these values and worked hard to maintain them. Assumptions about the family helped to shape the political, social, economic, and legal structures of Canada. The divoce laws served to maintain the status quo in familial values and gender-based attitudes, enforcing official standards of morality, family structure, and sexual conduct. James G. Snell examines the divorce laws of this period and the efforts of those who contronted the social pressures and challenged the divorce system. In view of the considerable authority of the divorce environment and the broad social support of the stus quo, their efforts are striking. An increasingly assertive group of Canadians, particularly women, defied the social taboos regarding divorce, claiming priority for their own marital needs. They manipulated the Canadian divorce process, taking advantage of existing loopholes in some instances and creating others when necessary. They insisted on the primacy of their own marital problems and in doing so resisted the immediate authority of the divorce environment while at the same time seeking the sanction of that authority. This was true not only for thuse using the formal divorce system, but also for many who resorted to informal processes of divorce.These 'pioneer' divorces led the way in creating a modern Canadian divorce system, based on consensual dissolution of marriage and relying on the courts less for arbitration between contending parties than for endorsement of a privately determined pact.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aDivorce
_xLaw and legislation
_zCanada
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aDivorce
_zCanada
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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