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Fallen Women and Thieving Ladies: Historical Approaches to Women and Crime in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Mary E. Odem
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Spring 1992 , pp. 351 - 361
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1992 

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References

1 For an overview of the scholarship on women's legal history, see Norma Basch, “The Emerging Legal History of Women in the United States: Property, Divorce, and the Constitution,” 12 Signs 97 (1986).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Barbara Meil Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990) (“Hobson, Uneasy Virtue”); Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900–1918 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

3 James C. Mohr, Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978); Leslie J. Reagan, ‘About to Meet Her Maker’: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940, 77 J. Am. Hist. 1240 (1991).Google Scholar

4 Hobson, Uneasy Virtue; Mary E. Odem, “Delinquent Daughters: The Sexual Regulation of Female Minors in the United States, 1880–1920” (doctoral diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1989).Google Scholar

5 For a different interpretation of the reformatory movement, see Estelle Freedman, Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America 1830–1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984).Google Scholar

6 Freedman, Their Sisters' Keepers; Barbara Brenzel, Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America 1857–1905 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983).Google Scholar