I: Development of the Women's Prison System
1: "Much and Unfortunately Neglected": Women in Early and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons
2: Origins of the Women's Reformatory, 1870-1900
3: The Women's Reformatory Movement, 1900-1935: From Success to Decline
4: Custodial Prisons For Women, 1870-1935
II: The Implementation of Punishment
Introduction
5: Conviction Offenses, Sentences, and Prisoners at Five Institutions
6: Race and Racism in State Prisons Holding Women, 1865-1935
7: The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study of The Social Control of Women
8: The Third Stage: The Women's Prison System Since 1935
III: Gender and Justice
9: Sex Discrimination in the Prison System: New Responses to the Perennial Problem
