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Author : Sara Amy Goodkind
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis From Delinquent Daughters to Independent Mothers by : Sara Amy Goodkind
Download or read book From Delinquent Daughters to Independent Mothers written by Sara Amy Goodkind. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Odem
Release : 2000-11-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Delinquent Daughters by : Mary E. Odem
Download or read book Delinquent Daughters written by Mary E. Odem. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings emerge overlapping and often contradictory views of middle-class female reformers, court and law enforcement officials, working-class teenage girls, and working-class parents. Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. The first began in 1885 with the movement to raise the age of consent in statutory rape laws as a means of protecting young women from predatory men. By the turn of the century, however, reformers had come to view sexually active women not as victims but as delinquents, and they called for special police, juvenile courts, and reformatories to control wayward girls. Rejecting a simple hierarchical model of class control, Odem reveals a complex network of struggles and negotiations among reformers, officials, teenage girls and their families. She also addresses the paradoxical consequences of reform by demonstrating that the protective measures advocated by middle-class women often resulted in coercive and discriminatory policies toward working-class girls.
Author : Lynn M. Nybell
Release : 2009
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation by : Lynn M. Nybell
Download or read book Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation written by Lynn M. Nybell. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors analyze how economic, political, and cultural changes over the past several decades have reshaped the experiences and representations of children and youth in the United States. From publisher description.
Author : Katrina Srigley
Release : 2010-01-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Breadwinning Daughters by : Katrina Srigley
Download or read book Breadwinning Daughters written by Katrina Srigley. This book was released on 2010-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls. In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.
Author : Amanda Glasbeek
Release : 2010-07-01
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Feminized Justice by : Amanda Glasbeek
Download or read book Feminized Justice written by Amanda Glasbeek. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, Toronto launched Canada's first woman's police court. The court was run by and for women, but was it a great achievement? This multifaceted portrait of the cases, defendants, and officials that graced its halls reveals a fundamental contradiction at the experiment's core: the Toronto Women's Police Court was both a site for feminist adaptations of justice and a court empowered to punish women. Reconstructed from case files and newspaper accounts, this engrossing portrait of the trials and tribulations that accompanied an early experiment in feminized justice sheds new light on maternal feminist politics, women and crime, and the role of resistance, agency, and experience in the criminal justice system.
