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Defining Deviance

Name: Defining Deviance
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 04868274
Price: 115.56 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael A. Rembis
ISBN: 9780252036064

Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960

Michael A. Rembis

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04868274

Publishers University of Illinois Press, April 2011

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Defining Deviance analyzes how reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perceived delinquent girls and their often troubled lives. Drawing on exclusive access to thousands of case files and other documents at the State Training School in Geneva, Illinois, Michael A. Rembis uses Illinois as a case study to show how implementation of involuntary commitment laws in the United States reflected eugenic thinking about juvenile delinquency. Much more than an institutional history, Defining Deviance examines the cases of vulnerable young women to reveal the centrality of sex, class, gender, and disability in the formation of scientific and social reform. Rembis recounts the contestations between largely working-class teenage girls and the mostly female reformers and professionals who attempted to diagnose and treat them based on changing ideas of eugenics, gender, and impairment.