Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons (Hardcover, New Ed)

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 manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is negotiated on a private, individual level, as women often resist the institution simply by trying to maintain an image of control over their own lives. However, their image of themselves as active, reasoning agents is undermined by institutional regimes which encourage traditional, passive, feminine behaviour at the same time as they deny the women their identities and responsibilities as mothers, wives, girlfriends and sisters. Femininity is, therefore, both the form and the goal of women's imprisonment. Yet paradoxically, femininity also offers the possibility of resistance, because women manage to rebel by appropriating and changing aspects of it.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
Release date:	August 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Mary Bosworth
Dimensions:	219 x 153mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84014-739-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
LSN:	1-84014-739-3
Barcode:	9781840147391

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