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Promise and Pitfalls in New Approaches to the History of Gender and Justice - Anne Meis Knupfer. Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America's First Juvenile Court. New York: Routledge, 2001. x + 290 pp. Introduction, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-925975; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-415-92598-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

David Wolcott
David Wolcott
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Miami University, Oxford, OH
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 105 - 108
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2003

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References

1 Odern, Mary E., Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885–1920 (Chapel Hill, 1995)Google Scholar; Alexander, Ruth, The “Girl Problem”: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900–1930 (Ithaca, NY, 1995)Google Scholar; Clapp, Elizabeth J., Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America (University Park, PA, 1998).Google Scholar

2 Horn, Margo, Before It's Too Late: The Child Guidance Movement in the United States, 1922–1945 (Philadelphia, 1989)Google Scholar; Getis, Victoria, The Juvenile Court and the Progressives (Urbana, 2000).Google Scholar

3 Knupfer explicitly derives her idea of “maternalism” from the framework proposed in Ladd-Taylor, Molly, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930 (Urbana, 1994).Google Scholar