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Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : two centuries of semi-penal institutionalisation for women
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- by Alana Barton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781315255088, 1315255081, 9781351935982, 1351935984, 0754638294, 1351935992
- OCLC
- ocn975223092, ocn974711532
- Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis.
- First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women behaving badly : feminist theory and the social control of women -- 3. 'Wayward girls and wicked women' : the history and development of the semi-penal institution -- 4. Domestic discipline : semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century -- 5. Between the church and the state : semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century -- 6. Vernon Lodge : the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution? -- 7. Conclusion