Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
- ISBN-10
- 1588262286
- ISBN-13
- 9781588262288
- Series
- Women in Prison
- Category
- Sex role
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Authors
- Jim Thomas, Barbara H. Zaitzow
Description
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those for 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. The papers in this collection explore 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. It looks particularly at how the personal and social problems imported into the prison setting become part of the intricate web of prison culture and how extensively women's prison experience reflects the control and domination they experienced in the outside world.
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- 2008
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