WOMEN POLICE: GENDER, WELFARE AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

"Women Police examines the professional roles, identities, activities and everyday experiences of women employed within the UK police service since the First World War against a backdrop of social and cultural change. Focusing on the period before women's formal integration with male officers in the 1970s, the book draws on a rich vein of sources including oral history, autobiography and archival collections, as well as the popular press, literature and visual imagery. It is the first in-depth historical study of women's involvement in uniform, plainclothes and undercover policing, and charts the relationship between gender, surveillance and penal-welfare strategies from a grass-roots perspective." "This study will appeal to scholars and students of social and cultural history, criminology, social policy, sociology and women's studies, as well as those with a general interest in police history."--Jacket.