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| List of Graphs and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Women in the Nineteenth-Century Male Penitentiary | |
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| "She Will Benefit from Further Disciplinary Treatment": The Historiography of Women's Imprisonment | |
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| "One Female Prisoner Is of More Trouble than Twenty Males": Female Convicts at the Alton Penitentiary, 1835-1858 | |
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| "The Most Degraded of Their Sex, if Not of Humanity": Female Convicts at the Joliet Penitentiary, 1859-1896 | |
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| "For God Sake Your Honor Let Me out of Here": Nineteenth-Century Pardon Petitions | |
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| The Social Construction of Crime and Criminality | |
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| "An Act Becomes a Crime According to the Community in Which It Is Committed": The Social Construction of a Criminal Act | |
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| "Lured Traveling Salesman to Her Room": The Character of Women's Crimes, 1890-1960 | |
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| "Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind": A Collective Profile of Female Prisoners, 1890-1960 | |
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| Doing Time at Joliet Women's Prison, 1896-1933 | |
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| "Defective Degenerates" versus "These Poor Unfortunates": Managing Female Felons and Delinquent Girls, 1896-1919 | |
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| "The Rottenest Hole in the Whole Prison System of Illinois": Joliet Women's Prison in the 1920s | |
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| Finding a Cure: Psychiatrists, Sociologists, and the Parole Board, 1917-1963 | |
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| "We Seem to Be Dealing with a Psychopathic Personality": Psychiatric Constructions of Female Criminality | |
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| "Success upon Parole Is Doubtful": Women before the Parole Board | |
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| Managing Wayward Women at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, 1930-1972 | |
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| "Discipline and Morale Have Not Been Satisfactory": The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Ideal, 1930-1954 | |
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| "I Have Trouble Getting Her to Live by the Rules": Surveillance and Control, 1954-1962 | |
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| "Punished for Vulgarity and Unladylike Behavior": Dwight's Final Decade as a Reformatory, 1962-1972 | |
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| Conclusion: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Notes on Archival Sources | |
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| Interviewees | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |