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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Mothering the Flock: Maternal Discipline and Pastoral Power -- Rethinking Maternalism: Maternal Rationalities and Strategies -- Christian Mothering as a Social Reform Technique -- Elizabeth Fry -- Conclusions -- 2 Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women -- The Creation of Separate Institutions for Women Prisoners -- The Andrew Mercer Reformatory and the Reformatory Ideal -- Maternally Based Programs of Prisoner Reform -- Conclusions: Maternal Success or Failure? -- 3 Finding a New Home: From Kingston Penitentiary to the Prison for Women -- Warehousing Women: The Female Unit at Kingston Penitentiary -- Rationale for a Separate Women's Penitentiary: The Nickle Commission, 1921 -- Institutionalization of Women's Knowledges: The Prison for Women, 1934-50 -- Conclusions -- 4 Laywomen's Expertise: Women's Prison Reform, 1945-70 -- New Forms of Governing: Rehabilitation and the Woman Prisoner -- The Persistence of Maternal Discipline: Household Management at P4W -- Scientific Interventions -- The Growth of Elizabeth Fry Societies -- Conclusions -- 5 Breaking with Tradition: Feminist Reformers and the Empowerment of Women? 1970-96 -- Liberal Feminism and Women Prisoners' Rights Claims -- The Politics of Difference and the Ethic of Care -- Creating Choices, the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women -- From Vision to Practice -- Redefining Women-Centredness -- Conclusions -- 6 Empowering Prison: Neoliberal Governance -- Theorizing Changes -- Renegotiating Boundaries: Responsibilizing the Community and the Offender -- Creating an Empowerable Subject: Supporting Knowledges -- The 'Will to Empower' -- Empowerment: A Flexible Strategy of Government -- The Unempowerable Prisoner: The Triangle of Sovereignty-Discipline-Government -- Conclusions |
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Conclusion: Stumbling Blocks, Growing Pains, or More of the Same? -- Paradoxes of Women-Centred Corrections -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Illustrations |
| Summary |
In "Punishment in Disguise", Kelly Hannah-Moffat presents a look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons. Hannah-Moffat uses women's imprisonment to theorize the complexity of penal power and to show how the meaning and content of women's penal governance changes over time, how penal reform strategies intersect and evolve into complex patterns of governing, how governing is always gendered and racialized, and how expert, non-expert, and hybrid forms of power and knowledge inform penal strategies. The author posits that although there has been a series of distinct phases in the imprisonment of women, the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform. While each distinct phase has its own corresponding ideology and discourse, the individual discourses have internal complexities and contradictions, which have not been adequately recognized in the general literature on penology. Avoiding universal and reductionist claims about women's oppression, Hannah-Moffat argues that relations of power are complex and fractured and that there is a need to explore the specific elements of institutional power relations. Backed by solid research, "Punishment in Disguise" makes a strong contribution to criminology and feminist theory by providing an alternative approach to analysing the governance of women by other women and by the state |
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Reformatories for women -- Canada -- History
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Women prisoners -- Canada -- Social conditions
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- Canada -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Female offenders -- Rehabilitation
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Reformatories for women
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Women prisoners -- Social conditions
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Geschichte
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Strafvollzug
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Weibliche Strafgefangene
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Canada
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Kanada
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e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1282042106 |
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9781282042100 |
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