Women and the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913: citizenship, sexuality and regulation

✍ Scribed by Jan Walmsley

• Book ID: 104470542
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 214 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1354-4187
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3156.2000.00042.x

✦ Synopsis

Summary

The present paper examines how women were targeted for sexual regulation and treated as ‘mental defectives’ under early‐twentieth‐century legislation, depriving them of citizenship. It also looks at factors which determined whether they continued to be detained in institutions or were ‘released’ into the community.