Dulcie Deamer and the women's reformatory, Long Bay

Title: Dulcie Deamer and the women's reformatory, Long Bay
Creator: Ramsland, John
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 33-40
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/volume-1-1-dec-1995.html
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 1995
Description: Through an analysis of an insightful article by Dulcie Deamer written in the mid-1920s, this paper, making use of Foucault's theory of the prison, explores the changing public perceptions about the Women's Reformatory at Long Bay near Sydney from the optimism of its official opening in 1909. The therapeutic ideological underpinnings of the regime at Long Bay, which were mainly devised by the feminist penal reformer Rose Scott, are scrutinised in some detail. The opportunities that were claimed to be provided in this new sanatorium of punishment and improvement are weighed up against Deamer's vivid but pessimistic impressions in 1925 in "In a Women's Prison" which appeared in The Australian Women's Mirror.
Subject: Dulcie Deamer; Long Bay, N.S.W.; women's reformatory; Michel Foucault; theory of the prison
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046369
Identifier: uon:14622
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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