Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930University of Michigan Press, 1984 - 248 pages This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America |
Contents
The Problem of the Woman Prisoner 182070 | 7 |
The Helping Hand The Origins and Ideas of Womens Prison Reform 18401900 | 22 |
Feminist or Feminine? The Establishment of Separate Womens Prisons 18701900 | 46 |
The Womens Prison Environment | 67 |
Domesticity Discipline and Prisoners Response Retraining Women in Prison | 89 |
The New Criminology of Women 19001920 | 109 |
The Limits of Progressive Penology 19001920 | 126 |
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