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Cookie akzeptierenKaisa Vehkalahti
Constructing Reformatory Identity
- Peter Lang
- 2009
- Taschenbuch
- 376 Seiten
- ISBN 9783039119134
By focusing on one particular re-education institution, this book offers a multifaceted analysis of practices of diagnosis and curing what was defined as «delinquency», «criminality» or «disorderly behaviour» at the turn of the twentieth century. The study provides an important corrective to the existing accounts of re-education by proposing an approach in which institutional practices are analysed both from above and from below. The book draws attention to the process of reforming identities ¿ the construction of reformatory identities ¿ as the core of residential re-education. Special emphasis is placed on the interplay of notions of gender and social background. The book is based on extensive
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