Discipline and polish: designing the "family system" at the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, 1868-1921

This dissertation examines the ways in which nineteenth-century American reformers used genteel, domestic buildings to reform defiant young girls. The Connecticut Industrial School for Girls opened in 1870 as a site dedicated to both academic education and industrial training, and founders chose th...

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Main Author: Robbins, Karen
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15695