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Author Hayden, Erica Rhodes, author.

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

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
©2019
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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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Subject Female offenders -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Female offenders.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Women prisoners.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hayden, Erica Rhodes. Troublesome women. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019] 9780271082264 (DLC) 2018035752 (OCoLC)1048658565
ISBN 9780271084244 (electronic book)
0271084243 (electronic book)
9780271082264
0271082267

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