Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons - Couverture rigide

Bosworth, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840147393 ISBN 13 : 9781840147391

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Bosworth, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, New York, USA

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840147393
• ISBN 13: 9781840147391
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible