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A study of the daily police-court columns in the local Toronto press provides an entre'e into the history of urban peril, moral reform, and the social languages of class, gender, and ethnicity. The newspaper police-court columns from the Telegraph, the Telegram, and the News between 1870 and 1891, revealed that cultural meanings of masculinity and femininity were defined in late nineteenth-century discourses of social reform, notably around temperance, and in relation to the administration of criminal justice in the police court. The bulk of this paper is comprised of an attempt to explain how these cultural representations of gender were constructed. My primary objective in this analysis is to move away from conceptualizations of gender as simply sexual difference between men and women, by revealing some of the complexities of meanings of gender for latter nineteenth-century Torontonians. While there is little in the ensuing analysis that focusses on developments in the law, or the police court as an institution of state regulation per se, this paper is a departure from the previous research on the nineteenth-century Toronto police court by Paul Craven and Gene Homel, in that I am concerned primarily with gender as a socially and historically variable category.'

'Roping in the Wretched, the Reckless, and the Wronged': Narratives of the Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto Police Court