Moral Regulation and Governance in Canada offers an outstanding selection of readings that represents an overview of the key issues in deviance, moral regulation, and governance in Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective. It effectively tracks the sociology of deviance, from governmentality studies to theories of social control. Of particular note is the focus this book gives to gender issues. It also argues that sometimes what is considered deviant is less related to criminality and more concerned with the perception of normalcy.
Part I: Moral Regulation: Genealogy of a Concept
Chapter 1: Social Control: Analytic Tool or Analytic Quagmire?, Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A. M. Gavigan Chapter 2: Introduction to Regulating Girls and Women, Joan Sangster
Chapter 3: On Moral Regulation: Some Preliminary Remarks, Philip Corrigan Chapter 4: The Struggles of the Immoral: Preliminary Remarks on Moral Regulation, Mariana Valverde and Lorna Weir
Chapter 5: The Creation of Homosexuality as a “Social Problem,” Gary Kinsman Chapter 6: Introduction to The Age of Light, Soap, and Water, Mariana Valverde
Part II: Studying Moral Regulation: Putting a Concept to Work
Chapter 7: Regulating the “Respectable” Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914-35, Renisa Mawani
Chapter 8: Recipes for Democracy? Gender, Family, and Making Female Citizens in Cold War Canada, Franca Iacovetta
Chapter 9: Incarcerating “Bad Girls”: The Regulation of Sexuality through the Female Refuges Act in Ontario, 1920-1945, Joan Sangster
Chapter 10: “Manhunts and Bingoblabs”: The Moral Regulation of Ontario Single Mothers, Margaret Hillyard Little
Chapter 11: Almost Anything Can Happen: A Search for Sexual Discourse in the Urban Spaces of 1940s Toronto, Mary Louise Adams
Chapter 12: The Space of Africville: Creating, Regulating, and Remembering the Urban “Slum,” Jennifer J. Nelson
Part III: The Limits of Moral Regulation and Beyond
Chapter 13: “A Social Structure of Many Souls”: Moral Regulation, Government, and Self-Formation, Mitchell Dean
Chapter 14: The Power of Powerlessness: Alcoholics Anonymous’s Techniques for Governing the Self, Mariana Valverde
Chapter 15: Welfare Law, Welfare Fraud, and the Moral Regulation of the “Never Deserving” Poor, Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A. M. Gavigan
Chapter 16: “Governmentality” and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology, David Garland
Biography
Dr. Amanda Glasbeek is on faculty in Brock University's Sociology Department. She works and teaches in the areas of law and social justice, feminist criminology, Canadian women's legal history, moral regulation and governmentality studies.
"This book fills an important gap in the existing literature, providing a very useful overview of the history and development of moral/social regulation approaches and approaches to governmentality. It introduces readers to the important debates between post-structuralism and more materialist approaches. It should be used in courses focusing on moral and social regulation. This is an important and needed book."
Gary Kinsman, Laurentian University
"Its major strengths are issues addressed in the Canadian context and the broad spectrum of areas covered. Another strength is the book's emphasis on non-criminal deviance, which is important."
Myrna Dawson, University of Guelph
"I particularly like the theoretical debates between the various authors; I really appreciate the theoretical work, as opposed to the typical 'issue' focus that deviance and regulation books tend to have. […] I value this book because of the quality of the authors that you have pulled together as well as the grounding theoretical debate between materialism and post-structuralism and its Canadian content."
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