Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century

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Manchester University Press, Sep 17, 2006 - Art - 220 pages
Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and cultural change.
 

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Networks structures and hierarchies
16
A respectable job for a woman?
47
Walking the beat
80
Going undercover
107
youth and welfare
138
Women sexuality and the law
171
Beyond integration?
199
INDEX
215
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Louise A. Jackson is Lecturer in Modern Social History in the School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh.

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