Mary Sophia Allen

Mary Sophia Allen was a British suffragette and police consultant in the early 20th century, known for her controversial advocacy of policing women's lives. During World War I, she took on the role of a volunteer auxiliary police officer, patrolling working-class neighborhoods, and later became a self-styled 'woman's police' consultant. Allen's career was marked by her alignment with fascist ideologies and her efforts to criminalize women's sexual freedom, which raises critical questions about the intersections of feminism and authoritarianism.