Overview: Animates the case studies through images of spaces and objects, taking us closer to the inmates.Shows how women challenged institutional spaces, for example by defying wooden partitions in sleeping cuTracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates. Variously known as asylums, refuges, magdalens, penitentiaries, Houses or Homes of Mercy, the goal of such institutions was t
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