Troublesome women : gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania / Erica Rhodes Hayden.
Material type: TextPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780271084244
- HV6046 .T768 2019
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"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.
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.
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