Department of History Faculty

Linda Mahood

Office: 1010 MacKinnon Extension
Phone: 519-824-4120 ex. 53238
lmahood@uoguelph.ca

Education

• Ph.D. (University of Glasgow), 1992
• M.Lit. (University of Glasgow), 1987
• B.A. (University of Saskatchewan), 1984

Professional Experience

• University of Guelph, Department of History, 1995-
• University of Lethbridge, 1992-94
• University of Saskatchewan, 1990

Research Interests

• 19th and 20th Century Scotland
• History of Punishment and Social Control
• Child Welfare, 19th and 20th Century

Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision

• as above

Selected Publications - Books

• Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876-1928 (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
• Social Control in Canada: Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance, co-edited with Bernard Schissel (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996).
• Policing Gender, Class and Family, 1850-1945 (London: University College London Press, 1995).
• The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1990).

Selected Publications - Articles and Chapters

• “Eglantyne Jebb: Remembering, Representing and Writing a Rebel Daughter,” Women’s History Review 17, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 1-20.
• “Elementary Teaching as Toil: The Diary and Letters of Miss Eglantyne Jebb, a Gentlewoman Schoolmistress,” History of Education Journal 35, no. 3 (May 2006): 321-43.
• "Feminists, politics and charity: the formation of the Save the Children Fund," Voluntary Action: The Journal of the Institute of Volunteering Research 6, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 71-82.
• "'Give Him a Doing': The Birching of Young Offenders in Scotland," Canadian Journal of History37 (December 2002): 439-457.
• "The disbudding of flowers: the historical construction of female adolescent delinquincy" in Gendering Scottish History, edited by T. Brotherstone, D. Simonton and O. Walsh (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999).
• Co-authored with Barbara Littlewood, "Daughters in Danger: The Case of 'Campus Sex Crime'," in Sexual Harassment: Contemporary Feminist Perspectives, edited by Alison M. Thomas and Celia Kitzinger (London: Open University Press; Canadian Distribution, University of British Columbia Press, 1997), 157-171.
• "Campus Sex Crime, Journalism, and Social Control," in Social Control in Canada: Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance, edited by B. Schissel and Linda Mahood (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996), 352-372.
• "Reconstructing Girlhood: Putting "Clever" Girls in Science," Canadian Women Studies 13, no. 2 (1993): 91-95.
• Co-authored with Barbara Littlewood, "Prostitutes, Magdalenes, and Wayward Girls: Dangerous Sexualities of Working Class Women in Victorian Scotland," Gender and History 3, no. 2 (1991), 160-175.