Regulating Womanhood

This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance which emerged in response.

Auteur

Carol Smart

Contenu

Introduction, Carol Smart; Chapter 1 Disruptive bodies and unruly sex, Carol Smart; Chapter 2 Feminist vigilantes of late-Victorian England, Lucy Bland; Chapter 3 Child sexual abuse and the regulation of women, Carol-Ann Hooper; Chapter 4 Women and late-nineteenth-century social work, Jane Lewis; Chapter 5 Producers of legitimacy, Martine Spensky; Chapter 6 Representing childhood, Mariana Valverde; Chapter 7 Whose property?, Ursula Vogel; Chapter 8 Mothers as citizens, Selma Sevenhuijsen; Chapter 9 Humanity or justice?, Anna Clark;