Abstract

Part I of the special issue on ‘Panopticons in Australia’ ended with a call for more detailed investigation in the areas of gender relations. Part II partly aims to answer this call in offering first to fill the gap with a paper by Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart on female convicts in Australia. Secondly, the significance of the sequel is to reassess the influence of the Panopticon, by focusing less on architecture than in Part I, and more on surveillance networks in the colony. This i...