"She will benefit from further disciplinary treatment": the historiography of women's imprisonment
"One female prisoner is of more trouble than twenty males": female convicts at the Alton Penitentiary, 1835-1858
"The most degraded of their sex, if not of humanity": female convicts at the Joliet penitentiary, 1859-1896
"For God sake your honor let me out of here": nineteenth-century pardon petitions
"An act becomes a crime according to the community in which it is committed": the social construction of a criminal act
"Lured traveling salesman to her room": the character of women's crimes, 1890-1960
"Whores and thieves of the worst kind": a collective profile of female prisoners, 1890-1960
"Defective degenerates" versus "these poor unfortunates": managing female felons and delinquent girls, 1896-1919
"The rottenest hole in the whole prison system of Illinois": Joliet women's prison in the 1920s
"We seem to be dealing with a psychopathic personality": psychiatric constructions of female criminality
"Success upon parole is doubtful": women before the parole board
"Discipline and morale have not been satisfactory": the rise and fall of the domestic ideal, 1930-1954
"I have trouble getting her to live by the rules": surveillance and control, 1954-1962
"Punished for vulgarity and unladylike behavior": Dwight's final decade as a reformatory, 1962-1972.
