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UNINA9910819854603321 |
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Women in prison : gender and social control / / edited by Barbara H. Zaitzow, Jim Thomas |
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Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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Edizione |
[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women prisoners - United States |
Sex role - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-Gendered Control in Prisons: The Difference Difference Makes""; ""Prison Culture as Absurd""; ""The Difference Difference Makes""; ""Equality or Parity?""; ""What Is Prison Culture?""; ""Symbolic Violence and Prison Research""; ""Standpoint: Outsiders Looking In""; ""Core Themes""; ""Chapter Summary""; ""2-“Doing Gender� in a Women�s Prison""; ""Characteristics of Female Offenders""; ""Deception of the Prison Appearance""; ""Upon Entry into Prison""; ""The Prison Experience""; ""Adaptation to Prison Life"" |
""Kinships""""Special Needs of Female Inmates""; ""Health Services""; ""Victimization of Women Prisoners""; ""Toward Change""; ""Conclusion""; ""3-Gendered Perceptions of Dangerous and Dependent Women: “Gun Molls� and “Fallen Women�""; ""Dangerous Women: Madams and Molls""; ""Determined, Dependent, and Diseased Women""; ""Gender: Seesaws and Symbolic Violence""; ""Conflicted Historical Foundations""; ""Legal Embodiment of Patriarchy""; ""“Creating� and “Classifying� Women and Slaves""; ""The State�s “Dependent Women�""; ""Penitentiaries and Dangerous Women"" |
""The “New South�: What Happened to Patriarchy?""""“Fallen Women�: Dangerous and Dependent""; ""Domination and Struggle: Women�s “Reformation�""; ""Maternal Love and Immoral |
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Relations""; ""Correctional Institutions: The “New Equality�""; ""Gender: Dependency, Domination, and Liberation""; ""4-Women�s Stories of Survival and Resistance""; ""Methods""; ""The Culture of Confinement""; ""Survival and Resistance""; ""Conclusion""; ""Note""; ""5-Abused Women and Incarceration""; ""Abuse Rates""; ""Childhood Abuse and Later Criminality"" |
""Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder""""The Security Mandate""; ""Male Guards in Women�s Prisons""; ""Supervision Issues""; ""Sexual Misconduct Within the Prison""; ""Trauma Coping Strategies""; ""Implications""; ""Conclusion""; ""6-Imprisoned Mothers and Their Children""; ""Where Do the Children Go?""; ""Babies Born in Prison""; ""Mother-Child Contact""; ""Postrelease Services and Alternatives to Incarceration""; ""Conclusion""; ""7-Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Prison""; ""Methodology: Doing Feminist Research""; ""Identity Politics: Destabilizing “Woman�"" |
""Gender: Femininity as Entrapment or Resistance""""Race: Disrupting the Color Line""; ""Sexuality: Challenging Gender and the Prison""; ""Conclusion: Subversive Identities""; ""Note""; ""8-Parallels in the Prison Experiences of Women and Men""; ""A Phenomenological Model of Prison Experience""; ""Methods""; ""Experiential Parallels""; ""Discussion""; ""9-Ultramasculine Stereotypes and Violence in the Control of Women Inmates""; ""Masculinity and Individual Violence""; ""Masculinity and Institutional Violence""; ""Women�s Experience in Prison andIts Relationship to Domestic Violence"" |
""Conclusion"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes continue to affect the treatment and opportunities of incarcerated women today. The authors focus especially on how the personal and social problems imported into the prison setting become part of the intricate web of prison culture. Their study reveals just how extensively women's prison experience reflects the control and domination they experienced in the outside world. |
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