Offending women: power, punishment, and the regulation of desire
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1. Verfasser: Haney, Lynne A., (Lynne Allison) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states -- Limited government: training women what to need -- Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement -- Hybrid states and government from a distance -- State therapeutics: training women what to want -- The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology -- The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self -- Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 287 pages)
ISBN:0520261909
0520261917
0520945913
9780520945913

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