Embodying punishment : emotions, identities, and lived experiences in women's prisons / Anastasia Chamberlen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlen, Anastasia, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--Great Britain.

Women prisoners.

Imprisonment--Great Britain.

Imprisonment.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

A unique theoretical and empirical examination of women's embodied experience of imprisonment in England. The author examines how women's experience of prison can be understood through a sociological focus on the interaction between body and emotion.

Contents:

Introduction; A Body-Aware Study of Imprisonment; The Current Landscape of Prisons in Crisis; The 'Who' Question: The Profiles of Imprisoned Women; The Book's Premise and Structure

1. Locating the Historical and Contemporary Context of Women's Imprisonment: The Foundations for a Body-Aware, Feminist Criminology: The Historical Context of Women's Punishment; The Punishment-Body Relation: Contemporary, Feminist Research on Women's Imprisonment; Conclusion

2. Materializing and Feeling Punishment: Women's Bodily Awareness and Embodied Perceptions in Prison: Women's Broader Biographies: Entering Prison in a 'Bad State'; Feeling and Sensing the Impact of Punishment; Conclusion

3. Changing Bodies and Ambivalent Subjectivities During and After Prison: The Changing Morphology of the Body and Shifts in Body Image; Medical Care and the Pathological Body: Attitudes to Changes in Health and Well-Being; Ambivalence about the Self and the Changing Body; Conclusion

4. Presenting the Prisoner: Appearance, Performances, and Gendered Identities: Theorizing Embodied and Gendered Subjectivity; Gender, Appearance, and Dress in Custody; Conclusion

5. Coping with Imprisonment: Strategies of Survival In and Out of Prison: Theorizing Pain, Emotions, and Coping; Prison Food as Comfort, Pleasure, and Bodily Distraction; Drug Use: Escaping Prison through the Body; Survival through Body Care; After Prison: Coping with Stigma; Conclusion

6. Self-Harming and Prison Pain: A Case Study into the Embodied Experience of Self-Injury: Theorizing and Contextualizing Self-Injury in Prison; Harming the Self: Embodied Pain in Prisons; Embodying the Sociology of Imprisonment; Conclusion

Conclusion; Responding to Calls for an Embodied Study of Imprisonment; Why Embody Punishment? Some Reflections on the Purpose of an Embodied Perspective

Appendix 1

The Research Process: Methods and Methodology: Research Design; Justification of Methods: Case Study Approach and Qualitative Research; Data Analysis and Interpretation; Methodology; Limitations and Future Directions

Appendix 2

Biographical Summaries of the Interview Participants; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-106616-8

0-19-181342-7

0-19-106615-X