sex, science, and delinquent girls, 1890-1960
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rembis, Michael A.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- gevangenissen, geweld, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, handicapisme, eugenetica, meisjes, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This book analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. The author examines the cases of vulnerable young women to reveal the centrality of sex, class, gender, and disability in the formation of scientific and social reform. Rembis recounts the contestations between largely working-class teenage girls and the mostly female reformers and professionals who attempted to diagnose and treat them based on changing ideas of eugenics, gender, and impairment. He shows how generational roles and prevailing notions of gender and sexuality influenced reformers to restrict, control, and institutionalize undesirable 'defectives' within society, and he details the girls' attempts to influence methods of diagnosis, discipline, and reform.