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It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 by Susan Woodall

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Description

Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates. Variously known as asylums, refuges, magdalens, penitentiaries, Houses or Homes of Mercy, the goal of such institutions was the moral ‘rehabilitation’ of unmarried but sexually experienced ‘fallen’ women. Largely from the working-classes, such women – some of whom had been sex workers – were represented in contradictory terms. Morally tainted and a potential threat to respectable family life, they were also worthy of pity and in need of ‘saving’ from further sin. Fuelled by rising prostitution rates, from the early decades of the nineteenth century the number of moral reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women expanded across Britain and Ireland. Through a programme of laundry, sewing work and regular religious instruction, the period of institutionalisation and moral re-education of around two years was designed to bring about a change in behaviour, readying inmates for economic self-sufficiency and re-entry into society in respectable domestic service. To achieve their goal, institutional authorities deployed an array of ritual, material, religious and disciplinary tools, with mixed results.

How long is Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910?

Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 by Susan Woodall is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 aloud.

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Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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