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dc.contributor.authorPhilippe, Yann
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-20T17:10:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-11T08:23:40Z
dc.date.available2017-03-20T17:10:02Z
dc.date.available2017-04-11T08:23:40Z
dc.date.issued2011
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Philippe, Y. (2011) 'Community Mothers or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience of Women in the New York Police Department (1900-1941)', Law, Crime and History, 1(1), pp.35-61. Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/8857

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dc.identifier.issn2045-9238
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8857
dc.description.abstract

In the first half of the twentieth century, women police played a small yet active role in the New York Police Department. This article does not intend to narrate the growing presence of policewomen in the department but to examine their professional roles, identities, activities and experiences. It emphasizes the diversity of their tasks and social background, taking especially into account the division between former police matrons and social workers. Given this diversity, the category of gender is thus reinterpreted to understand how it functioned as a flexible and complex identity in relation to other forms of identity. Gender could be played up or down and negotiated according to circumstances and individuals, to either integrate a male-dominated institution, perform social work or do investigative work.

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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouth
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectwomen policeen_US
dc.subjectrole ofen_US
dc.subjectpolicewomenen_US
dc.subjectNew York Police departmenten_US
dc.subjectpolice and genderen_US
dc.subjectpolice and classen_US
dc.subjectinvestigationen_US
dc.titleCommunity Mothers or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience of Women in the New York Police Department (1900-1941)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typeArticle
plymouth.issue1
plymouth.volume1
plymouth.journalSOLON Law, Crime and History


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