Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : two centuries of semi-penal institutionalisation for women /
by Alana Barton.
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
- 176 p. ; 24 cm.
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.
Women behaving badly : feminist theory and the social control of women -- Wayward girls and wicked women : the history and development of the semi-penal institution -- Domestic discipline : semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century -- Between the church and the state : semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century -- Vernon Lodge : the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution?