Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for W

In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early nineteenth century to the present day. She focuses in particular on the 'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges, reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique position within the social control 'c