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Women in the police |
04 May 2006 |
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Women police have been on the beat since the First World War, but until the nineteen seventies worked as a separate, specialist force to their male counterparts.
Louise Jackson, Lecturer in Modern Social History, University of Edinburgh and author of Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century joinsJenni to discuss why wome were so successful as under-cover officers, and how their image was transformed from frumpy matrons to highly professional crime-fighters.
Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century by Louise A. Jackson. Published by Manchester University Press, May 2006 - Manchester University Press |
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