Reform and Resistance
Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-92598-3
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 31st August 2001
- Pages: 304
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About the Book
Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing,
Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.
About the Author(s)
Anne Meis Knupfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is a professor of Education at Purdue University. She is the author of
Toward a Tendered Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood: African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.
