LEADER 03389oam 2200493 450 001 9910746999803321 005 20231110185532.0 010 $a9783031405716$b(ebk) 010 $a3-031-40571-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-40571-6 035 $a(CKB)28305450700041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30754242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30754242 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-40571-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928305450700041 100 $a20231012d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaterial Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 $eInside the 'Homes of Mercy' /$fSusan Woodall 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 225 1 $aGenders and Sexualities in History Series 311 $a9783031405709 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Mission, Critique and Development -- 3. A Chaste and Pleasing Elevation?: Making Moral Spaces -- 4. Crossing the Threshold -- 5. Too Bad for Anything Better? -- 6. Material Religion -- 7. ?Short? Homes, Afterlives and Material Continuities -- 8. Conclusion. . 330 $aTracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for ?fallen? women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates. Variously known as asylums, refuges, magdalens, penitentiaries, Houses or Homes of Mercy, the goal of such institutions was the moral ?rehabilitation? of unmarried but sexually experienced ?fallen? women. Largely from the working-classes, such women ? some of whom had been sex workers ? were represented in contradictory terms. Morally tainted and a potential threat to respectable family life, they were also worthy of pity and in need of ?saving? from further sin. Fuelled by rising prostitution rates, from the early decades of the nineteenth century the number of moral reform institutions for ?fallen? women expanded across Britain and Ireland. Through a programme of laundry, sewing work and regular religious instruction, the period of institutionalisation and moral re-education of around two years was designed to bring about a change in behaviour, readying inmates for economic self-sufficiency and re-entry into society in respectable domestic service. To achieve their goal, institutional authorities deployed an array of ritual, material, religious and disciplinary tools, with mixed results. Susan Woodall is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History at the Open University, UK. 410 0$aGenders and sexualities in history. 606 $aWomen$xConduct of life$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xMoral conditions$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aWomen$xConduct of life$xHistory. 676 $a248.843 700 $aWoodall$b Susan$01430306 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746999803321 996 $aMaterial Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910$93570006 997 $aUNINA