Women police: Gender, welfare and surveillance in the twentieth century

✍ Scribed by Louise Jackson

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Series: Gender in History
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Women Police is the first in-depth historical study of women’s involvement in uniform, plain-clothes and undercover policing in the UK. Topics covered include the regulation of prostitution, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect. T

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introductions
Networks, structures and hierarchies
A respectable job for a woman?
Walking the beat
Going undercover
Policing the family: youth and welfare
Women, sexuality and the law
Beyond integration?
Select Bibliography
Index

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