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Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
Michael Rembis
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Description for Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
Hardback. An historical study of the treatment of troubled girls, often perceived as threats to the American race Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFFG; JFSJ1; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training School in Geneva, Illinois, Michael A. Rembis uses Illinois as a case study to show how implementation of involuntary commitment laws in the United States reflected eugenic thinking about juvenile delinquency. Much more than an institutional history, Defining Deviance examines the cases of vulnerable young women to reveal the centrality of sex, class, gender, and disability in the formation of scientific and social ... Read more
Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training School in Geneva, Illinois, Michael A. Rembis uses Illinois as a case study to show how implementation of involuntary commitment laws in the United States reflected eugenic thinking about juvenile delinquency. Much more than an institutional history, Defining Deviance examines the cases of vulnerable young women to reveal the centrality of sex, class, gender, and disability in the formation of scientific and social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036064
SKU
V9780252036064
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About Michael Rembis
Michael A. Rembis is the director of the Center for Disability Studies and an assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo.
Reviews for Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
"Gripping first-hand narratives coupled with compelling statistics. . . . Rembis's robust research, careful methodology, and keen analyses make this book a worthwhile read."
Disability & Society "Engaging. . . . careful and thoughtful scholarship."
The Annals of Iowa "[Defining Deviance] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of ... Read more
Disability & Society "Engaging. . . . careful and thoughtful scholarship."
The Annals of Iowa "[Defining Deviance] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of ... Read more