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In 1913, Toronto launched an experiment in feminist ideals: a woman’s police court. The court offered a separate venue to hear cases that involved women and became a forum where criminalized women – prostitutes, vagrants, alcoholics, and thieves – met and struggled with the meaning of justice. This multifaceted portrait of the court’s business and its people – from its inception by middle-class, maternal feminists to its demise in 1934, from the repeat offender to its controversial magistrate, Margaret Patterson – reveals the experiment’s fundamental contradiction. The court was both a site for feminist adaptations of justice and a court empowered to punish the women who appeared on its docket. Feminized Justice sheds new light on maternal feminist politics, women and crime, and the role of resistance, agency, and experience in the justice system.

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Glassbeek's book is an important addition to feminist colloquy as well as feminist inquiry...[a] comprehensive and insightful explanation of how and why a path paved with good intentions became a dead end. -- Judith A. Baer, Texas A&M University * Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 20, No 7 *

An original and important contribution to existing literature on feminized justice. Not only does the author explore records that have been inadequately examined in the past, she also offers new theoretical insights into these sources. - Lori Chambers, Women's Studies, Lakehead University

Glassbeek's book is an important addition to feminist colloquy as well as feminist inquiry...[a] comprehensive and insightful explanation of how and why a path paved with good intentions became a dead end. -- Judith A. Baer, Texas A&M University Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 20, No 7

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Amanda Glasbeek is an assistant professor of criminology in the Department of Social Science at York University.

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