The Social evil in New York City
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1910
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Moral Survey Committee (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Committee of Fifteen (New York, N.Y. : 1900)
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Committee of Fifteen (New York, N.Y. : 1900)
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Prostitution
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Author : Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Chicago. Vice Commission
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Syracuse Moral Survey Committee
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Prostitution
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Charities
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Author : Gerald W. McFarland
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558495029
A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Ruth M. Alexander
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801485770
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, letters from their parents, and institutional records, she follows the histories of a hundred girls as they run afoul of the law, are incarcerated, and struggle to reenter society. From the interplay among girls, families, courts, and penal institutions emerges a fascinating picture of class inequality and culture conflict. Alexander finds that most delinquent young women eventually accepted the idea that freedom was best won by conformity and accommodation. In showing how a new social problem was identified and tackled, Alexander also documents the emergence of the modern professions of social work and mental hygiene. Reenacting a key chapter in the transformation of adolescence, The "Girl Problem" contributes to the history of sexuality and social reform through the Progressive Era and beyond.