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Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons (Paperback)
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Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons (Paperback)
Series: New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
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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.
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