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Troublesome women : gender, crime and punishment in antebellum Pennsylvania / Erica Rhodes Hayden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271084244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6046 .T768 2019
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Contents:
"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.
Subject: "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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HV6046 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1083671446

"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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