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historical continuum’.10 Many report that contemporary history is actually informed
more explicitly by, but not guided by, the concerns of the present.11 This paper will
therefore assist in ‘restructuring historical priorities’, by exploring semi-penal
responses to ‘deviant’ women in Liverpool.12 Most popular literature on this details
the scientific reatment of unruly and ‘deviant’ women in the nineteenth century,13 and
Joe Sim even cla [YY]H8