{"id":59,"date":"2018-03-30T04:06:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/?p=59"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:53:20","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/2018\/03\/30\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009-1024x857.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of three young white women sitting or standing next to an older white woman.\" width=\"768\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009-115x96.jpg 115w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2018\/04\/Img0009.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned, matrons, like Mrs. Falconer (the woman on the far right), were an essential part of the reformatory structure. Within their cottage, they were expected to act as mother, confidant, jailer, and punisher. Through these roles, matrons reinforced the boundaries that the cities did not around race, class, and gender. As white, educated women, they modelled what &#8220;proper&#8221; womanhood was supposed to look like for the girls and women brought into the reformatory who were perceived\u00a0as deviant and, therefore, a threat to the imagined stability of identities that entailed higher social status and power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does the posing of the people in this photos suggest about their relationship?<\/p>\n<p>What do you wonder about these women? What were your first impressions of them?<\/p>\n<p>How does this image compare to group pictures of the incarcerated youth? Do you think the younger women next to Mrs.\u00a0Falconer are social workers\/matrons? Why or why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously mentioned, matrons, like Mrs. Falconer (the woman on the far right), were an essential part of the reformatory structure. Within their cottage, they were expected to act as mother, confidant, jailer, and punisher. Through these roles, matrons reinforced the boundaries that the cities did not around race, class, and gender. As white, educated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":570,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/incarcerated-women-shistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}