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Material setting and reform experience in English institutions for fallen women, 1838-1910 = inside the 'Homes of Mercy' /

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Title/Author:	Material setting and reform experience in English institutions for fallen women, 1838-1910/ by Susan Woodall.
Reminder of title:	inside the 'Homes of Mercy' /
Author:	Woodall, Susan.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xxiii, 313 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Reformatories for women - History - 19th century. - England -
Subject:	England - Church history - 17th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40571-6
ISBN:	9783031405716

Material setting and reform experience in English institutions for fallen women, 1838-1910 = inside the 'Homes of Mercy' /
Woodall, Susan.

Material setting and reform experience in English institutions for fallen women, 1838-1910inside the 'Homes of Mercy' /[electronic resource] :by Susan Woodall. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xxiii, 313 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Genders and sexualities in history,2730-9487. - Genders and sexualities in history..

1. Introduction -- 2. Mission, Critique and Development -- 3. A Chaste and Pleasing Elevation': Making Moral Spaces -- 4. Crossing the Threshold -- 5. Too Bad for Anything Better? -- 6. Material Religion -- 7. 'Short' Homes, Afterlives and Material Continuities -- 8. Conclusion.

Tracing 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 the moral 'rehabilitation' of unmarried but sexually experienced 'fallen' women. Largely from the working-classes, such women - some of whom had been sex workers - were represented in contradictory terms. Morally tainted and a potential threat to respectable family life, they were also worthy of pity and in need of 'saving' from further sin. Fuelled by rising prostitution rates, from the early decades of the nineteenth century the number of moral reform institutions for 'fallen' women expanded across Britain and Ireland. Through a programme of laundry, sewing work and regular religious instruction, the period of institutionalisation and moral re-education of around two years was designed to bring about a change in behaviour, readying inmates for economic self-sufficiency and re-entry into society in respectable domestic service. To achieve their goal, institutional authorities deployed an array of ritual, material, religious and disciplinary tools, with mixed results. Susan Woodall is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History at the Open University, UK.

ISBN: 9783031405716

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-40571-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1430448
Reformatories for women
--History--England--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

571554
England
--Church history--17th century.

LC Class. No.: HV9647 / .W66 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 365.43094209034

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