{"product_id":"family-and-justice-in-the-peter-gossage-9781988111438","title":"Family and Justice in the Archives: Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eA series of essays that use archival records of legal processes to piece together a picture of daily life across varied identities and lived experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Legal archives offer extraordinary opportunities for understanding intimacies across time and space.\u003ci\u003e Family and Justice in the Archives\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of fascinating historical essays that unpack stories of familial, domestic, and sexual intimacy from the records left behind by legal processes, providing rich new insights about family, gender, race, sex, culture, identity, and daily life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors examine the written traces left by public proceedings that occurred in legally sanctioned spaces of social regulation, from notaries' offices to criminal and civil courtrooms to legislatures. Focusing on the past two centuries and spanning five continents, the essays explore a wide range of topics including marriage, citizenship, inheritance, indentured servitude, infanticide, juvenile justice, parental abuse, bigamy, and sex work. Mindful of the ethical questions that arise when scrutinizing the details of people's most vulnerable moments, these authors also demonstrate how individuals navigated and sometimes challenged legal prescriptions and processes to address systemic imbalances of power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamily and Justice in the Archives\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the wealth of detail that emerges from a close reading of documents generated by legal processes in the past, offering valuable new perspectives on the complex personal lives of so-called ordinary people in former times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Gossage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988111439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988111438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Concordia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Peter Gossage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46546089214207,"sku":"9781988111438","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82689cce-ee00-43ca-9c83-8b923618d6bb.jpg?v=1738184098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-and-justice-in-the-peter-gossage-9781988111438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}