Offending women [electronic resource] : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire / Lynne A. Haney.

Offending women [electronic resource] : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire / Lynne A. Haney.

9780520945913 (electronic bk.)
9780520261907
9780520261914 (pbk.)

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]

©2010

English

1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)

HV6046 .H36 2010eb

365/.4309794

"Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly widespread. Incorporating vivid, sometimes shocking observations of daily life, she probes the dynamics of power over women's minds and bodies that play out in two such institutions in California. She finds that these "alternative" prisons, contrary to their aims, often end up disempowering women, transforming their social vulnerabilities into personal pathologies, and pushing them into a state of disentitlement. Uncovering the complex gendered underpinning of methods of control and intervention used in the criminal justice system today, Offending Women links that system to broader discussions on contemporary government and state power, asks why these strategies have arisen at this particular moment in time, and considers what forms of citizenship they have given rise to"--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.

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