Troublesome women : gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania /
Hayden, Erica Rhodes,
Troublesome women : gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania / Erica Rhodes Hayden. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
"With a world of tears" : women criminals and the use of mercy and femininity -- "She would have a divorce at the risk of her life" : women and crimes that challenged social limitations -- "Amazonian outbreak" : antebellum women and political crime -- "Disturbing the other prisoners" : female inmates in Pennsylvania penitentiaries -- "No kind treatment can subdue the prisoner" : chaos and female resistance in the county jails -- "Restoration to the path of virtue" : the difficult task of reform.
"Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems"--Provided by publisher.
9780271084244
Female offenders--History--Pennsylvania--19th century.
Women prisoners--History--Pennsylvania--19th century.
Electronic Books.
HV6046 / .T768 2019
Troublesome women : gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania / Erica Rhodes Hayden. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
"With a world of tears" : women criminals and the use of mercy and femininity -- "She would have a divorce at the risk of her life" : women and crimes that challenged social limitations -- "Amazonian outbreak" : antebellum women and political crime -- "Disturbing the other prisoners" : female inmates in Pennsylvania penitentiaries -- "No kind treatment can subdue the prisoner" : chaos and female resistance in the county jails -- "Restoration to the path of virtue" : the difficult task of reform.
"Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems"--Provided by publisher.
9780271084244
Female offenders--History--Pennsylvania--19th century.
Women prisoners--History--Pennsylvania--19th century.
Electronic Books.
HV6046 / .T768 2019