Women, Crime and the Experience of Servitude in Colonial America and Australia
This essay argues that conceptions of gender greatly affected the way women experienced the early modern criminal justice system in Britain, particularly through convict transportation, an enigmatic process whereby convicts were forced into exile and servitude in both colonial America and Australia....
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| Language: | English |
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University of Western Australia
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2570941/Women,-Crime-and-the-Experience-of-Servitude-in-Colonial-America-and-Australia.pdf |