Mettray
A History of France's Most Venerated Carceral Institution
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Mettray is a model for those interested in studying youth incarceration, gender, and sexuality. I anticipate that many graduate classes on modern history, especially the history of gender and sexuality, will adopt this work for discussion in graduate seminars.
» Journal of Social History
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's. Les mer
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The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 280
- ISBN
- 9781501740183
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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Mettray is a model for those interested in studying youth incarceration, gender, and sexuality. I anticipate that many graduate classes on modern history, especially the history of gender and sexuality, will adopt this work for discussion in graduate seminars.
» Journal of Social History
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Mettray undertakes quite an extensive exploration of the rich archive of this significant institution [a] most engaging history.
» French History
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Toth immerses his reader in a micro-history based on a rich bibliography and, above all, by an exhaustive examination of the archives of the penal colony of Mettray As [he] shows, what began as a resolutely utopian project that emerged from an optimistic representation of juvenile delinquents by reformers in the first half of the nineteenth century was marked by a slow drift towards a strictly authoritarian and punitive model.
» International Review of Social History
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Stephen A. Toth's beautifully written history of the Mettray agricultural colony for delinquent boys is an exciting, original addition to the history of youth, the history of carceral society, the history of sexuality, and the history of modern France.
» European History Quarterly
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