CANS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yellow Journalism, Pauperism, Miscegenation
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Dismantling of older governance of bastardy as counter-productive (mathus says relief of poverty will mathematically increase poverty ) Their poverty isn"t the same threat to politically order as male property. You can govern this through the regulation of. Sexuality - which tended to make women the bearers of responsibility. Paternity - which tended to make men the bearers of responsibility. Welfare/charity - which tended to make the state bearer of responsibility. Dissolution of parish/state/ pateral responsibility in era of liberal political economic and the consequence is the instance that its really about freedom, which is to say sex. In new france, marie-aimee clochee sees nearly 100 bastardy proceedings. By definition these are always poor women, sometimes taking on very rich ones. Women generally acting for themselves in these cases. Bastardy proceedings persist in lower canada: donald fyson sees 42 cases in mtl district - all of them are proven correct.