Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Map of the Women\'s Penal Establishments in England and Wales
Introduction Agency and Power in Women\'s Prisons: An Overview
	Identity Politics: A New Approach for Criminology?
	An Outline of the Chapters
	Identity and Agency: Encouraging Expressions of Resistance
1 Reading the Prison: A Review of the Literature
	The Origins of the Prison: Freedom vs. Responsibility
	Punishment, Discipline and Modern Society
	The Founding Fathers: Importation/Deprivation
	The \'Community\' of Women: Importation, Deprivation or Inadequacy?
	Disciplining Women: Sociology and Autobiography
	Feminism and Critique: Social Theory
	The Current \'Crisis\' in Prison Studies: Questions of Legitimacy
	Implications of Re-viewing the Literature: New Directions?
2 Re-evaluating Difference: The Gender of Justice, Care and Power
	The Legitimacy of Power and Punishment
	Custody, Security and Justice: Balancing Imprisonment
	Justice and Legitimate Expectations
	The Injustice of Security?
	On the Limitations of Justice, Rights and Equality for Women
	Meeting the Needs of Women in Prison: An Ethics of Care or Paternalism?
	Evaluating Women\'s Imprisonment: Engendering Justice
	Conclusion: Problematizing Consent, or Legitimate for Whom?
3 Towards Legitimate Research Methods, or Working \'by, on, for\' and with Women
	Do Feminist Research Methods Exist?
	The Tyranny of Intimacy
	Doing Time
	Inside a Total Institution: Environmental Factors
	Breaking In, or Whose Side Are We On?
	Justifying My Techniques: Towards Legitimate Research Methods
	Subjectivity, Agency and Identity: The Postmodern Turn
	Understanding and Interpreting Prisons: Is There a Method?
4 Gender, Identity and the Prison: Punishing Their Bodies, Punishing Their Selves
	The \'Politics of Identity\': An Overview
	Reconfiguring \'Woman\': Agency and Subjectivity
	Institutional Constraints: Regulation of the Autonomous Self
	Identity and the \'Problem of Order\'
	Narratives of Identity
	Race, Class and Gender: Identity Formation Through Intersection
	Women in Prison: Beyond a Community of Victims
5 Voices of Agency, Voices of Resistance: Negotiating Power Relations in Prison
	Agency and Resistance: Some Definitions
	Freedom of Choice: Conflicting Accounts
	Contingent Choices: Towards an Appreciation of Difference
	Order and Compliance in Women\'s Prisons: Constituting Agency and Resistance
	Resisting Identities: Strategies of Change
	Reconfiguring Identity: Femininity as Resistance
	Femininity as Resistance: Repoliticizing Prison Studies
	Resisting Imprisonment: Some Conclusions
Conclusion Women\'s Imprisonment: Conclusions and New Directions
	Resisting Identities: Formulating a Gendered Understanding of Power
	The Paradox of Resistance: New Directions?
	Towards a New Criminological Imagination
Appendix
References
Index