Policing Women: Histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950

Introduction SECTION 1: Gender, Attitudes and Policing 1. Policing women in urban Scotland c.1890-1950 LOUISE JACKSON AND RIAN SUTTON 2. Policing women and girls in Canada from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth Century TAMARA MYERS 3. Policing Australian Women: beyond Sex and Secrets ALANA PIPER SECTION 2: Space, Place and Social Control 4. The policing of female drunkenness in two northern English boroughs, c.1869-1875 CRAIG STAFFORD 5. The policing of women in the northwest of England, 1856-1901 GUY WOOLNOUGH 6. Women, police, and social control in Bologna between the eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century SANNE MUURLING 7. 'A Very Friendly Feeling Which is Perfectly Natural': police and sex workers in progressive era Baltimore KATIE M. HEMPHILL SECTION 3: Police Culture, Practice and Identity 8. 'It would be a great evil to let so bad a Character ... go at large': convict women and the Irish police, the 1860s-1900 ELAINE FARRELL 9. Character and crime: police classification of female offenders in late nineteenth century England JO TURNER 10. 'I don't care about you, I'll write to the procurer!' Women's threats, insults, and violence against policemen, 1863-1913 MARION PLUSKOTA SECTION 4: Mobility, Migration and Race 11. Policing migrant women: patterns of mobility, control and expulsion in the German Empire, 1870-1914 BEATE ALTHAMMER 12. Policing emancipation: white law enforcer sexual violence against Black women in the reconstruction US South, 1865-1877 ELIZABETH M. BARNES 13. 'Where are the Race Police Women?' African American policewomen in the Black press and on the beat in early twentieth-century America ELIZABETH EVENS Conclusion