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Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Mary Bosworth
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women
Engendering Resistance
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Mary Bosworth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Routledge

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Exploring how power is negotiated in women's prisons, this book uses contemporary feminist theory to examine how women manage to resist the pains of imprisonmen
Female Imprisonment
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Catarina Frois
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-19 - Publisher: Springer

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This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences inv
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Pat Carlen
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in wome
Marking Time in the Golden State
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Candace Kruttschnitt
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s