Offending women : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire / Lynne A. Haney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female offenders--California--Case studies.

Female offenders.

Female offenders--Rehabilitation--California--Case studies.

Correctional institutions--California--Case studies.

Correctional institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly widespread. Incorporating vivid, sometimes shocking observations of daily life, she probes the dynamics of power over women's minds and bodies that play out in two such institutions in California. She finds that these "alternative" prisons, contrary to their aims, often end up disempowering women, transforming their social vulnerabilities into personal pathologies, and pushing them into a state of disentitlement. Uncovering the complex gendered underpinning of methods of control and intervention used in the criminal justice system today, Offending Women links that system to broader discussions on contemporary government and state power, asks why these strategies have arisen at this particular moment in time, and considers what forms of citizenship they have given rise to.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Ethnographic Journey Across States

Limited Government: Training Women What To Need

Deconstructing Dependency: Needs,Rights,And The Struggle For Entitlement

Hybrid States And Government From A Distance

State Therapeutics: Training Women What To Want

The Empowerment: Myth Social Vulnerability As Personal Pathology

The Enemies Within: Fighting The Sisters And Numbing The Self

Conclusion States Of Disentitlement And The Therapeutics Of Neoliberalism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612453458

9781282453456

1282453459

9780520945913

0520945913

OCLC:

586163185