WOMEN POLICE: GENDER, WELFARE AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Series: GENDER IN HISTORY
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS; Manchester University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: MANCHESTER, UK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 220
Description: "Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and cultural change. Focusing on the period before women's formal integration with male officers in the 1970s, the book draws on a rich vein of sources including oral history, autobiography and archival collections, as well as the popular press, literature and visual imagery. It is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plainclothes and undercover policing, and charts the relationship between gender, surveillance and penal-welfare strategies from a grass-roots perspective." "This study will appeal to scholars and students of social and cultural history, criminology, social policy, sociology and women's studies, as well as those with a general interest in police history."--Jacket.