Overview
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison. In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Ted McCoy tells these women’s stories of incarceration and resistance in poignant detail. The four women served sentences at different times over a century, but the inhumanity they suffered was consistent. Locked away in dark basement wards, they experienced starvation and corporal punishment, sexual abuse and neglect – profoundly disturbing evidence of the hidden costs of isolation, punishment, and mass incarceration.
Full Product Details
Author: Ted McCoy ,
Ted McCoy
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Weight: 0.240kg
ISBN: 9780774838887
ISBN 10: 0774838884
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Although Ted McCoy's Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text-and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!-it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838-1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History * This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons *
This book honours Bridget Donnelly, Charlotte Reveille, Kate Slattery and Emily Boyle by bringing their disturbing stories to light. -- Ann Hansen * Herizons * Although Ted McCoy's Four Unruly Women is a short and accessibly written text-and, therefore, an excellent teaching resource!-it also offers a meticulously researched and multilayered analysis of four women, all imprisoned at the notorious Kingston Penitentiary (KP) at different times, for a revealing glimpse into the gendered pains of imprisonment over the course of a century (1838-1934). -- Amanda Glasbeek * Histoire social/Social History *
Author Information
Ted McCoy is the author of Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, where he teaches law and society.
