Building Society and Governing Intimacy: Gender, Law, and Constructions of Sexuality and Courtship in Late-Nineteenth Century British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines Victorian concepts of courtship, masculinity, and femininity in latenineteenth century British Columbia as they were constructed, perpetuated, and understood through legal trials involving the crimes of seduction and abortion.With a focus on the capital city of Victoria and the interior resource town of Revelstoke, this thesis argues that case files, press reports, and associated political and legal texts allow scholars to gain a better understanding of Victorian ideologies, especially when contextualized within the moral and physical geographies of British Columbia.By paying greater attention to the discourses of gender and sexuality and how they intertwined with changing concepts of governance in late-Victorian British Columbian society, it is possible to have a more in-depth understanding of the province's regional history.While the conclusions of this thesis resonate in a wider literature on the law, gender, and sexuality in this period, they also point to the need for more social histories of nineteenth-century British Columbia in order to better understand the province's (re)making as a settler society and culture.29 Canadian historians of the law such as Karen Dubinsky, Constance Backhouse, and Lesley Erickson are just some of the scholars working to move away from this type of legal history by attempting to resist the seeming sterility of it by using the law as a window into social and cultural history.While more interested in state formation and governance, Tina Loo also balances a history of the law with a more focussed look at how it interacts with the populations of people on whom it is imposed and with whom it is intertwined.30 There are various works that illustrate the use of the law and related sources to gain a better understanding of historical social norms, situations and contexts including but not limited to the work of John McLaren, Robert Menzies and Dorothy E.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".