(PDF) Bad Girls by Caitlin Davies

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Bad Girls
A History of Rebels and Renegades
by Caitlin Davies

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• Awards: Orwell Prize Nominee for Political Writing for Longlist (2019)
• Publisher: John Murray
• Release date: March 8, 2018
• Language: english
• Format: hardcover, 373 pages
• Genres: history, feminism, historical
• ISBN: 9781473647749 (1473647746)
• Author: Caitlin Davies

About The Book

Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women.

Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed ‘terror to evil-doers’ which, until its closure in 2016, was western Europe’s largest women’s prison.

First built in 1852 as a House of Correction, Holloway’s women have come from all corners of the UK — whether a patriot from Scotland, a suffragette from Huddersfield, or a spy from the Isle of Wight — and from all walks of life — socialites and prostitutes, sporting stars and nightclub queens, refugees and freedom fighters. They were imprisoned for treason and murder, for begging, performing abortions and stealing clothing coupons, for masquerading as men, running brothels and attempting suicide. In Bad Girls, Caitlin Davies tells their stories and shows how women have been treated in our justice system over more than a century, what crimes — real or imagined — they committed, who found them guilty and why. It is a story of victimization and resistance; of oppression and bravery.

From the women who escaped the hangman’s noose — and those who didn’t — to those who escaped Holloway altogether, Bad Girls is a fascinating look at how disobedient and defiant women changed not only the prison service, but the course of history.

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