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Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : two centuries of semi-penal institutionalisation for women / by Alana Barton.

By: Barton, Alana, 1966-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005Description: 176 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0754638294.Subject(s): Probation -- Great Britain | Female offenders -- Great Britain | Sex role -- Great Britain | Corrections -- Great Britain | Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain
Contents:
Women behaving badly : feminist theory and the social control of women -- Wayward girls and wicked women : the history and development of the semi-penal institution -- Domestic discipline : semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century -- Between the church and the state : semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century -- Vernon Lodge : the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution?
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Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.

Women behaving badly : feminist theory and the social control of women -- Wayward girls and wicked women : the history and development of the semi-penal institution -- Domestic discipline : semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century -- Between the church and the state : semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century -- Vernon Lodge : the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution?

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