Women Policing Women: A Patrol Woman in Montreal in the 1910s
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| Title |
Women Policing Women: A Patrol Woman in Montreal in the 1910s
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| Abstract |
Elizabeth Wand was one of four women hired by Montreal civic authorities in the last year of the First World War to patrol the city’s streets and deal with women criminals and moral offenders. The movement to hire female police officers was, in part, due to the lobbying efforts of the Montreal Local Council of Women, a mainly Protestant umbrella organization that was concerned with the well being of women and children in the city. The author explains that Wand, a bilingual trained nuse and social worker, expanded the meanings of crime, policing and discipline, and encountered resistance from male officers and judges, and from other police women as well.
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Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada
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New Series Vol. 4
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229-245
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1993
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en
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Myers, Tamara. “Women Policing Women: A Patrol Woman in Montreal in the 1910s.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada New Series Vol. 4 (1993): 229–245. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/1993-v4-n1-jcha1000/031064ar.pdf.
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