Title:
Offending women : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire
Author:
Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967- author.
ISBN:
9780520945913
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)
Abstract:
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 wome.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pncbgCopies:
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