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1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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 wome. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Female offenders -- California -- Case studies.
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Female offenders. |
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California. |
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Case studies.
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- California -- Case studies.
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation. |
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Correctional institutions -- California -- Case studies.
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Correctional institutions. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967- Offending women. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520261907 (DLC) 2009020586 (OCoLC)354854366 |
| ISBN |
9780520945913 (electronic book) |
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0520945913 (electronic book) |
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9780520261907 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520261914 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520261909 |
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0520261917 |
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