gender, welfare and surveillance in the twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jackson, Louise A.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- politieagenten, loopbanen, seksueel geweld, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and cultural change. Focusing on the period before women’s formal integration with male officers in the 1970s, the book draws on a rich vein of sources including oral history, autobiography and archival collections as well as the popular press, literature and visual imagery. In this historical study of women’s involvement in uniform, plain clothes and undercover policing, and charts the author looks at the relationship between gender, surveillance and penal-welfare strategies from a grass-roots perspective.