Women in prison : gender and social control
"Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment - and how gender stereotypes continue to affect the treatment and opportunities of incarcerated women today." "The authors focus especially on how the personal and social problems imported into the prison setting become part of the intricate web of prison culture. Their study reveals just how extensively women's prison experience reflects the control and domination they experienced in the outside world."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colo., 2003
x, 251 pages ; 24 cm
9781588262288, 1588262286
52092014
Gendered control in prisons: the difference difference makes / Jim Thomas
"Doing gender" in a women's prison / Barbara H. Zaitzow
Gendered perceptions of dangerous and dependent women: "gun molls" and "fallen women" / Esther Heffernan
Women's stories of survival and resistance / Kathleen J. Ferraro and Angela M. Moe
Abused women and incarceration / Lori B. Girschick
Imprisoned mothers and their children / Susan F. Sharp and M. Elaine Eriksen
Gender, race, and sexuality in prison / Mary Bosworth
Parallels in the prison experiences of women and men / Richard S. Jones and Thomas J. Schmid
Ultramasculine stereotypes and violence in the control of women inmates / Faith E. Lutze
Conclusion: moving forward / Jim Thomas