Punish and Critique - Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality (Hardcover)

Over the past 25 years, a range of critical - that is, Marxist, poststructuralist and, less frequently, feminist - perspectives has been brought to bear on the subject of punishment and, in particular, on the question of imprisonment in western capitalist societies. Considered together, these critical views challenge traditional ways of conceptualizing punishment. Yet, for all the advances made, the new critical perspectives remain deeply flawed in a significant, but as yet barely acknowledged way - with very few exceptions they are profoundly masculinist. Punish and Critique begins the task of exploring what a theoretically-informed feminist analysis of penality might look like and, in the process, uncovers a series of disjunctions in the recent critical analyses - for example, disjunctions between social histories' of prison regimes imposed on men and feminist histories of the imprisonment of women.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Sociology of Law and Crime
Release date:	July 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Adrian Howe
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05190-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-05190-8
Barcode:	9780415051903

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