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Invisible Women (Paperback)
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Invisible Women (Paperback)
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This, Angela Devlin's classic text, was written at a time when
there were few, if any, special arrangements for women in prison in
England and Wales. It was a driving force in the creation of a
dedicated female prison estate with its own director, regimes and
regulations that took account of women's different needs. Until
then, the media tended to focus mainly on high profile women
prisoners like Myra Hindley and Rosemary West. Most women became
'invisible' as soon as they passed through the prison gates and
were subsumed into a world that was predominantly masculine and
insensitive to their own situation. The author spent five years
visiting prisons taking women, interviewing female prisoners and
those whose job it is to care for them - prison officers,
education, probation and healthcare staff, chaplains and
counsellors. The result is a book that is accessible to the general
reader as well as the prison professional. It vividly recreates the
realities of prison life for women prisoners. Devlin describes the
over-use of medication as a means of control; overcrowding;
expenditure cuts; staff shortages; the violence resulting from drug
misuse; the plight of ethnic minority and foreign national women;
and the self-mutilation and suicide attempts of female prisoners in
desperate need of help. Invisible Women has stood the test of time.
It enables readers - especially who have never set foot inside a
prison - to see the unique impact of imprisonment on women.
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