Controlling Women (eBook, ePUB)

The Normal and the Deviant
Redaktion: Hutter, Bridget; Williams, Gillian

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of 'deviant' women cannot be separated from the study of how all women are defined and controlled.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040165928
• Artikelnr.: 72254068

Autorenporträt

Bridget Hutter was Professor of Risk Regulation in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and was previously the Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the LSE. Bridget was a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford from 1987-1995, during which time she was awarded a British Academy Fellowship. Bridget published a wide range of socio-legal work on compliance and risk regulation in the fields of environmental, health and safety, and food regulation. Dr Gillian Williams worked as community worker, probation officer and mental health social worker before training and working as a psychotherapist in the NHS. Since retiring, her doctoral research at Coventry University has explored constructions of disability through the performance and works of professional choreographers with disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Controlling Women: The Normal and the Deviant Bridget Hutter
and Gillian Williams 2. Law and the Control of Women's Sexuality: The Case
of the 1950s Carol Smart 3. Man-Made Laws for Men? The Street Prostitutes'
Campaign Against Control Eileen McLeod 4. Normal Motherhood: An Exercise in
Self-Control? Ann Oakley 5. Care or Custody? The Experiences of Women
Patients in Long-Stay Geriatric Wards Helen Evers 6. Women and Broadmoor:
Treatment and Control in a Special Hospital Colin Rowett and Phillip J.
Vaughan 7. Women, Alcohol and Social Control Shirley Otto 8. Abortion: The
Myth of the Golden Age Madeleine Simms 9. Women in Later Life: Patterns of
Control and Subordination Chris Phillipson. Notes on Contributors. Index.