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Sex and Prisons: Women and Spanish Penitentiary Reform, 1787‐1808

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 501-517, December 2019., 2019
Abstract Whereas prisons had previously been thought of as transitory places for those awaiting trial, the new prison system aimed at the reformation of convicts. In Spain the first organisation set up to improve prison conditions was the Señoras de las Cárceles. This article shows how the Señoras attempted to erase the sexual aspect of women's prisons
Elena Serrano
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