Alice Bonzom : “The handcuffs are very beneficial to naughty passionate young girls”: disciplining and punishing female prisoners, defying and disobeying British gaolers (1860s-1910s)
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13 décembre 2023
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Alice Braun, « Alice Bonzom : “The handcuffs are very beneficial to naughty passionate young girls”: disciplining and punishing female prisoners, defying and disobeying British gaolers (1860s-1910s) », Aliénation / émancipation, ID : 10.58079/d1nb
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Female prisoners, not unlike other categories of women, have often been invisibilised, kept quiet, out of sight and out of (their?) mind(s). Both as prisoners and as women, they are often relegated to the footnotes of history books. While there were a lot less women in long-term and short-term prisons than men, in the second half of the 19th century until World War I, female prisoners were conceived of as particularly problematic. They raised specific issues due to their supposed ‘natures’; ...