Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities

In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and ''deviant'' women from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Her particular focus is the ''semi penal'' institution, a category that includes refuges, reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique position within the social control ''continuum'', somewhere between the formal regulati...