Defining Deviance : Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960

Name: Defining Deviance
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252079276
Price: 5050 KES
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ISBN: 9780252079276

by Michael Rembis

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0252079272

ISBN-13 9780252079276

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2013

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 376 grams

Dimensions 23.20 x 19.50 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Disability: social aspects Gender studies: women and girls Disability: social aspects Gender studies: women Crime & criminology Crime and criminology History of the Americas

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Analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives.

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 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.

In tracing the historical evolution of ideologies of impairment and gender to show the central importance of gender to the construction of disability, Rembis reveals the larger national implications of the cases at the State Training School. His study provides new insights into the treatment of young women whom the dominant society perceived as threats to the sexual and eugenic purity of modern America.

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