TY - BOOK AU - Hayden,Erica Rhodes TI - Troublesome women: gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania SN - 9780271084244 AV - HV6046 .T768 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - University Park, Pennsylvania PB - The Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Female offenders KW - Pennsylvania KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Women prisoners KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; "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; 2; b N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2013115&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -