Author: Ann OakleyPublisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Women Confined
Author: Ann OakleyPublisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Unruly Women
Author: Karlene FaithPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609803388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriarchal, capitalist norms that seek to control their bodies and choices, as seen in the case of prostitution and prosecutions of pregnant women for risky behaviors. Further, the majority of women who enter the criminal justice system have been victims of violence, which raises questions about the continuum from victimization to criminalization. Unruly Women explores patterns of female crimes and punishments, from the witch hunts to the present; institutionalized violence and sexual abuse against incarcerated women; women loving women in prison; motherhood inside prison; battered woman syndrome; Hollywood’s formulaic women-in-prison films; political education in prisons; and acts of resistance, inside and out. Karlene Faith challenges misconceptions of "deviant" women, and celebrates the unruly woman: the unmanageable woman who claims her own body, and who cannot be silenced. As the "drug war" wages on, riddled with excessive and inequitable prison sentences; the incarcerated population skyrockets toward 2.5 million (up from less than 200,000 nationwide in 1970); and private prisons burgeon around the coasts, now is a critical moment to educate ourselves about what is at stake with our prison system. Faith’s incisive work causes us to question the usefulness of the forced confinement and surveillance of mostly nonviolent people.
Women Confined
Author: Ann OakleyPublisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Motherhood confined
Author: Rachel E. BennettPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526166801
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners. The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis.
The Women's House of Detention
Author: Hugh RyanPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 9781645036654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.
Confined Femininity
Author: Charlene J. FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This dissertation illuminates the lives of confined Black women by examining places in addition to carceral locales as arenas of confinement, including mental health asylums and domestic spaces. It seeks to explore how these women both defied and defined confinement through their interactions with public, social, and political entities of the period, as well as how they challenged Victorian ideas of race and femininity in Kentucky. Specifically, this project moves beyond a historical analysis of correctional institutions and Black womanhood to present three central arguments: first, that Black women negotiated the parameters their own confinement; next, that Black women's challenge of confinement also created the space for them to challenge trauma; and, finally, that confinement was not limited to carceral arenas. Other socially constructed environments, such as the home or religious institutions or ideologies, imposed social, political, and gendered restrictions on Black women's lives. Black women often engaged in acts of resistance that were not particularly liberating or in pursuit of freedom. If a woman grew tired and frustrated with the abuse in her home, did she view the possibility of incarceration as a temporary respite from family violence? Did Black women participate in the informal economy as a reprieve from the confinement of menial labor as domestic servants, or from financially limiting marital relations? This project explores such scenarios and argues that most women were aware that resistance to one form of confinement might lead to life in another confined space. I contend that these decisions were not made with freedom as a governing goal but to acquire temporary respite from their current, oppressive situation.
The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty FriedanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393322572
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
Female Imprisonment
Author: Catarina FroisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319636855
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than primarily being a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, it can equally be a place of transformation that enables them to regain a sense of selfhood. From in-depth ethnographic research involving close interaction with the prison population, in which inmates present their life histories marked by poverty, violence, and abuse (whether as victims, as agents, or both), Frois observes that the traditional idea of “doing time”, in the sense of a strenuous, repressive, or restrictive experience, is paradoxically transformed into “having time” – an experience of expanded self-awareness, identity reconstruction, or even of deliverance. Ultimately, this engaging and compassionate study questions and defies customary accounts of the impact of prisons on those subjected to incarceration, and as such it will be of great interest for scholars and students of penology and the criminal justice system.
Locked Up
Author: Mitra GanleyCity of Incurable Women
Author: Maud CaseyPublisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored “City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through “Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.