Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities
Subtitle: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780754638292
Subjects: Prisons; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Sex role; Great Britain; Social Science; Sociology; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Penology; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - General; Corrections; Female offenders; Probation
First sentence: The image of the 'normal' woman is based around an idealised concept of femininity, which in turn is constructed around dominant discourses of domesticity, respectability, motherhood, sexuality and pathology.