Defining deviance
Subtitle: sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960
By: Michael A. Rembis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780252036064
Subjects: Inmates of institutions; Female sex offenders; History
Description: Drawing on the case files of the State Training school of Geneva, Illinois, the author presents a history of delinquent girls in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on contemporary perceptions of gender, sexuality, class, disability and eugenics, the work examines the involuntary commitment of girls and young women deemed by reformers to be "defective" and shows both the dominant social trends of the day as well as the ways in which the victims of these policies sought to mitigate their conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Segregation of mental defectives as a preventive of crime, immorality, and inefficiency; title: Defective children in the juvenile court; title: The relation between morality and intellect"; title: I ain't had much schooling; title: How a girl of the road wins rides and influences motorists; title: "Little savages" and "psychopathic deviates".