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Bad for the health of the body, worse for the health of the mind : female responses to imprisonment in England, 1853-1869
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Bennett, Rachel (2021) Bad for the health of the body, worse for the health of the mind : female responses to imprisonment in England, 1853-1869. Social History of Medicine, 34 (2). pp. 532-552. hkz066. doi:10.1093/shm/hkz066
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz066
Abstract
Upon committal to one of the newly established female convict prisons in the mid-nineteenth century, women entered a system intended to regulate them in body and in mind for the ends of reform. This article interrogates how women’s health needs were identified and contested by the prison officials and doctors tasked with their custody and care. It highlights the importance of broader temporal gender beliefs in dictating their treatment in this carceral space and explores how the women themselves exercised agency over the terms of their imprisonment. In addition, it reveals the previously underexplored transference of women between the institutions that made up the female convict estate that was prompted by concerns about the impact of a rigorous prison system on their physical and mental health.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women prisoners -- England -- History -- 19th century , Reformatories for women -- England -- History -- 19th century, Women prisoners -- Health and hygiene, Women prisoners -- Mental health, Women prisoners -- Services for | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social History of Medicine | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0951-631X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 532-552 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | hkz066 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkz066 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Social History of Medicine following peer review. The version of record [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: xxxxxxx [insert URL and DOI of the article on the OUP website]. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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