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| Titre : | 'Waging War on the Streets' : the Irish Women Patrol, 1914-22 (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Senia PASETA, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 39 n 154 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 250-271 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | |
| Résumé : | Female activists across the United Kingdom had insisted from the late nineteenth century that the employment of women police who would deal with problems specific to women and children could help to address pressing social questions, or at least to offer women some protection within the entirely male criminal justice system. Their campaign for women police was connected with similar demands for the employment of female prison visitors and inspectors and, later, jurors and lawyers, and it was predicated on the idea that neither prisons nor courts afforded women fair and equal treatment under the law. Early victories included the appointment of police matrons and searchers, but the resistance of police authorities and most other civil servants to female officers remained solid into the early twentieth century, feminists campaigning notwithstanding. The outbreak of the First World War, however, provided an ideal context for renewed activism on the issue |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Senia Paseta |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
