Girl Problem Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930

Name: Girl Problem Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930
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ISBN: 9780801485770

ISBN-10: 0801485770

ISBN-13: 9780801485770

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Authors: Ruth M. Alexander

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During the Progressive Era, young working-class women were sometimes jailed for engaging in social and sexual activities that signaled their rejection of Victorian moral standards. These disadvantaged "delinquents" were subject to legal sanctions that were rarely applied to rebellious middle-class girls. As she traces the history of a social crisis that came to be known as the "girl problem", Ruth M. Alexander reconstructs the stories of individual women incarcerated in reformatories who helped redefine female adolescence in the United States. Alexander draws on the rich case files of reformatories at Bedford Hills and Albion, New York. Bringing together writings by the young inmates,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A New Adolescent Female



"Going Around with a Bad Crowd of Girls": Young Women and the Lure of City Streets



"The Confusion of Standard among Adolescent Girls": Reformers Confront the Girl Problem



"Every Minute Is to Me like Eternity": Inmates at Albion and Bedford Hills



"I Live in Hopes of Her Come from There a Better Daughter": Families and the Reformatories



"I've Chosen a New Road to Travel": The Challenges of Parole


Conclusion: The Social Inequities of Female Adolescence


Bibliographic Essay


Notes


Index