Controlling Women

The Normal and the Deviant

By: Bridget Hutter (Editor), Gillian Williams (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 November 2024 | Edition Number 1

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210 Pages

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Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of âdeviantâ women cannot be separated from the study of how all women are defined and controlled. Contributors consider motherhood, prostitutes, abortion, alcoholism, retirement, geriatric patients, Broadmoor patients and legal controls of sexuality in Britain.

Social definitions of women and institutional arrangements are used to control women, often in such a way that women see them, not as control, but as part of everyday routines â" part of the ânaturalâ order of things. The book identifies some of the ways in which women seek to resist or circumvent these forms of control.

The book will still be of interest to all those concerned with the position of women in our society and, more specifically, to students and teachers of sociology, social policy and theories of deviant behaviour. Its focus on images of women and the exercise of control will be of particular interest to professionals concerned with the counselling of women, whether in social, therapeutic or medical fields.

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