DEFINING DEVIANCE: SEX, SCIENCE, AND DELINQUENT GIRLS 1890- 1960 Michael Rembis

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Book Title
Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
ISBN-10
0252079272
Educational Level
Adult & Further Education
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No
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Advanced
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1st Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780252079276
Subject Area
Social Science
Publication Name
Defining Deviance : Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Item Length
9.3 in
Subject
Social Work, Gender Studies, Criminology
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Michael Rembis
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
248 Pages
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252079272
ISBN-13
9780252079276
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150585263

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Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Defining Deviance : Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Social Work, Gender Studies, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Author
Michael Rembis
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended." - Choice "[ Defining Deviance ] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."-- Social Service Review, "Engaging. . . . careful and thoughtful scholarship."-- The Annals of Iowa   "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice,   "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller,     "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, "Gripping first-hand narratives coupled with compelling statistics. . . . Rembis's robust research, careful methodology, and keen analyses make this book a worthwhile read."-- Disability & Society, "[ Defining Deviance ] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."-- Social Service Review, "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller,   "[ Defining Deviance ] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."-- Social Service Review, "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice "[Defining Deviance] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."--Social Service Review, "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended."- Choice "[ Defining Deviance ] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."-- Social Service Review, ''Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change.''--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller, "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended." - Choice "[Defining Deviance] brings to life new material on the policing of adolescent female sexuality and provides a new perspective on the rise of the therapeutic state."--Social Service Review, "An excellent history of the involuntary commitment of delinquent girls. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice,   "Gripping first-hand narratives coupled with compelling statistics. . . .  Rembis's robust research, careful methodology, and keen analyses make this book a worthwhile read."-- Disability & Society "Michael A. Rembis rightly and bravely uses the example of female delinquency to make sharp historical and contemporary analyses of eugenics and disability. The smart, analytical, and broad historical context Rembis provides will elicit marvelous student discussions of questions of gender, power, deviance, and historical change."--Kim E. Nielsen, author of Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship With Helen Keller
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
364.36082/0973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Segregation of Mental Defectives as a Preventive of Crime, Immorality, and Inefficiency" 13 2. "Defective Children in the Juvenile Court" 33 3. "The Relation Between Morality and Intellect" 53 4. "I Ain't Had Much Schooling" 72 5. "How a Girl of the Road Wins Rides and Influences Motorists" 94 6. "Little Savages" and "Psychopathic Deviates" 119 Epilogue. Defining Deviance in the Late Twentieth Century: The New "New Girl Problem"? 143 Appendix A. Illinois' Involuntary Commitment Law 149 Appendix B. Illinois' Model Sterilization Law 158 Notes 163 Selected Bibliography 199 Index 221 Illustrations follow page 52
Synopsis
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 ......, 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. He shows how generational roles and prevailing notions of gender and sexuality influenced reformers to restrict, control, and institutionalize undesirable "defectives" within society, and he details the girls' attempts to influence methods of diagnosis, discipline, and reform. In tracing the historical evolution of ideologies of impairment and gender to show the central importance of gender to the construction of disability, Rembis reveals the larger national implications of the cases at the State Training School. His study provides new insights into the treatment of young women whom the dominant society perceived as threats to the sexual and eugenic purity of modern America., 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. He shows how generational roles and prevailing notions of gender and sexuality influenced reformers to restrict, control, and institutionalize undesirable ''defectives'' within society, and he details the girls' attempts to influence methods of diagnosis, discipline, and reform. In tracing the historical evolution of ideologies of impairment and gender to show the central importance of gender to the construction of disability, Rembis reveals the larger national implications of the cases at the State Training School. His study provides new insights into the treatment of young women whom the dominant society perceived as threats to the sexual and eugenic purity of modern America.
LC Classification Number
HV6557.R46 2013

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