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Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red Light District of Montreal before 1945
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Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red Light District of Montreal before 1945
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The author concentrates on ‘delinquent’ teenage girls in inter-war Montreal. She points out that a major target of the modern juvenile justice movement – the sex delinquent – could be determined daily in the nation's new juvenile courts. The author explains that in Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court, girls' misbehaviour was largely interpreted in sexual terms. In addition, most girls that were accused of desertion had some sexual experience, but their desertions were often about much more than having sex. The experiences of girls while running away, which involved both adventure and survival, are explored by the author. In general, her data shows that deserting daughters left their homes and ventured onto the streets of Montreal, where they found pleasure and danger, were rarely alone, and where the social geography of Montreal aided them in their journey.
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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives
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Liverpool, England
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University of Liverpool Press
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2001
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15-35
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en
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978-0-85323-676-4
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Myers, Tamara. “Deserting Daughters: Runaways and the Red Light District of Montreal before 1945.” In Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: International Perspectives, edited by Pat Starkey and Jon Lawrence, 15–35. Liverpool, England: University of Liverpool Press, 2001.
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