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Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison
By (author) Elaine Farrell
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Focusing on women's relationships, decisions and agency, this is the first study of women's experiences in a nineteenth-century Irish prison for serious offenders. Showcasing the various crimes for which women were incarcerated in the post-Famine period, from repeated theft to murder, Elaine Farrell examines inmate files in close detail in order to understand women's lives before, during and after imprisonment. By privileging case studies and individual narratives, this innovative study reveals imprisoned women's relationships with each other, with the staff employed to manage and control them, and with their relatives, spouses, children and friends who remained on the outside. In doing so, Farrell illuminates the hardships many women experienced, their poverty and survival strategies, as well as their responsibilities, obligations, and decisions. Incorporating women's own voices, gleaned from letters and prison files, this intimate insight into individual women's lives in an Irish prison sheds new light on collective female experiences across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 1 Oct 2020
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 160 x 235 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 590g
ISBN | 978-1-1088-3950-1
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BISAC | history / europe / general
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