Article ID: CBB418229223

Sex and Prisons: Women and Spanish Penitentiary Reform, 1787-1808 (2019)

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Whereas prisons had previously been thought of as transitory places for those awaiting trial, the new prison system aimed at the reformation of convicts. In Spain the first organisation set up to improve prison conditions was the Señoras de las Cárceles. This article shows how the Señoras attempted to erase the sexual aspect of women's prisons and create instead a morally acceptable space in which to educate female prisoners. Their practices reveal how changing ideas about punishment and education, sexuality and gender, entered the Spanish penal system, permeated civil society and facilitated the transition to a different legal regime.

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Article Darren N. Wagner; Joanna Wharton (2019) The Sexes and the Sciences. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 399-413). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth
Cryle, Peter
Julie Passanante Elman
Stob, Paul
Ray, Angela G.
Troyer de Romero, Hilaire K.
Concepts
Sexuality
Science and gender
Women
Sex
Science and society
Education
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Medieval
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Argentina
Spain
Europe
England
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
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