Wounded Feelings
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"Wounded Feelings is a very rich book that less seeks to provide a simple explanation of what emotional suffering was meant to be than to use discussions of such feeling as an access point to how people considered questions of self, reputation, bodily autonomy, and personal rights."
» Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide, <em>Borealia</em>
Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries like dishonour, humiliation, grief, and betrayal before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, Eric H. Les mer
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The cases reveal both contemporary views of emotion as well as the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped those understandings and their adjudication. Examples include a family’s grief over their infant son’s death due to a physician’s prescription error, a wealthy woman’s mortification at being harassed by a conductor aboard a train, and a Black man's indignation at being denied seats at a Montreal cinema. The book also traces an important legal change in how moral injury was conceptualized in Quebec civil law over the period as it came to be linked to the developing idea of personality rights. By 1950 the subjective richness of stories of wounded feelings was increasingly put into the language of violated rights, a development with implications for both social understandings of emotion and how individuals presented their emotional injuries in court.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781487526986
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Winner of CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize 2020 Canada and Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research 2020 Canada.
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"Wounded Feelings is a very rich book that less seeks to provide a simple explanation of what emotional suffering was meant to be than to use discussions of such feeling as an access point to how people considered questions of self, reputation, bodily autonomy, and personal rights."
» Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide, <em>Borealia</em>
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"This book masterfully blends jurisprudence and legislation, with emphasis on the Quebec Civil Code, to elucidate how the subjectivity of emotions has been legally interpreted over time. […] Wounded Feelings provides a uniquely Canadian perspective on the interrelated topics of litigation, social history, legal history, and human sentiment. Upon reading, it is clear why this book has been so well received. This book comes highly recommended for academic law libraries, as well as the history collections of academic libraries."
» Mary Hemmings, Thompson Rivers University, <em>Canadian Law Library Review </em>