Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century
In: Gender in History Ser v.Gender in History
In: Gender in history
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In: Gender in History Ser v.Gender in History
In: Gender in history
In: Women's and Gender History
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 134-137
ISSN: 1461-7390
In: The Parliamentarian: journal of the parliaments of the Commonwealth, Band 90, Heft 1, S. 36-37
ISSN: 0031-2282
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 975-977
ISSN: 1467-2235
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 639-647
ISSN: 1461-7250
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 281-284
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 639-647
ISSN: 1461-7250
In: Urban history, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 304-305
ISSN: 1469-8706
In: Gender & history, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 108-134
ISSN: 1468-0424
Despite a huge popular and literary interest in detective fiction and an extensive academic literature on the history of policing, there have been very few studies of the history of private detectives/investigators. The work of women investigators has proved to be even more marginal. Histories of women and work have tended, for obvious reasons, to concentrate on mainstream industries, occupations and professions rather than the unusual or the unique. Focusing on the memoirs of Annette Kerner, published in the early 1950s, this article examines the range of opportunities that investigation created in the first half of the twentieth century, analysing the interaction of professional, gender and class identities. It highlights, firstly, women's 'professional' commitment to an exciting and challenging area of work, exploring their relationships with other occupational groups including women police. Second, it considers how disguise and masquerade presented opportunities for urban exploration and the crossing of traditional boundaries of gender and class. Investigative work developed, historically, at the same time as detective fiction and it has been deeply affected by fictional portrayals. The cultural mantle of 'the female Sherlock Holmes' was a hard inheritance to shake off and it suffused women's public presentations of themselves.
In: Family & community history: journal of the Family and Community Historical Research Society, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 135-145
ISSN: 1751-3812
In: Gender & history, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 107-126
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Physiological ecology
In: Gender and History Ser.
D'Cruze and Jackson introduce students to key debates and trends in the study of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England over the last four centuries. The areas explored include attitudes towards murder and infanticide, sexual violence, prostitution, the 'girl delinquent', and women's experience of penal regimes.