Overview
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 women, transforming their social vulnerabilities into personal pathologies, and pushing them into a state of disentitlement. Uncovering the complex gendered underpinning of methods of control and intervention used in the criminal justice system today, Offending Women links that system to broader discussions on contemporary government and state power, asks why these strategies have arisen at this particular moment in time, and considers what forms of citizenship they have given rise to.
Full Product Details
Author: Lynne Haney
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780520261914
ISBN 10: 0520261917
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 10 February 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""I strongly recommend this book. Haney's account is rich with ethnographic detail that brings life to abstract debates about mode of governance and the state."" American Journal Of Sociology / AJS ""Enriched with vivid images and details on incarcerated women's lives, this book reminds us of incarcerated women's social realities."" -- Olivera Simic Feminist Review ""Insightful... This book will appeal to persons with an interest in women's studies."" -- Jack E. Call Law & Politics Book Review ""Offending women makes excellent use of ethnographic material and close observation to build a compelling analysis of two state institutions."" British Jrnl Of Sociology
"""I strongly recommend this book. Haney's account is rich with ethnographic detail that brings life to abstract debates about mode of governance and the state."" American Journal Of Sociology / AJS ""Enriched with vivid images and details on incarcerated women's lives, this book reminds us of incarcerated women's social realities."" -- Olivera Simic Feminist Review ""Insightful... This book will appeal to persons with an interest in women's studies."" -- Jack E. Call Law & Politics Book Review ""Offending women makes excellent use of ethnographic material and close observation to build a compelling analysis of two state institutions."" British Jrnl Of Sociology"
I strongly recommend this book. Haney's account is rich with ethnographic detail that brings life to abstract debates about mode of governance and the state. --American Jrnl of Sociology / Ajs
I strongly recommend this book. Haney's account is rich with ethnographic detail that brings life to abstract debates about mode of governance and the state. American Journal Of Sociology / AJS 20110504 Enriched with vivid images and details on incarcerated women's lives, this book reminds us of incarcerated women's social realities. -- Olivera Simic Feminist Review 20100418 Insightful... This book will appeal to persons with an interest in women's studies. -- Jack E. Call Law & Politics Book Review 20110629 Offending women makes excellent use of ethnographic material and close observation to build a compelling analysis of two state institutions. British Jrnl Of Sociology 20121218
I strongly recommend this book. Haney's account is rich with ethnographic detail that brings life to abstract debates about mode of governance and the state. --American Journal of Sociology / Ajs Enriched with vivid images and details on incarcerated women's lives, this book reminds us of incarcerated women's social realities. --Feminist Review Insightful... This book will appeal to persons with an interest in women's studies. --Law & Politics Book Review Offending women makes excellent use of ethnographic material and close observation to build a compelling analysis of two state institutions. --British Jrnl of Sociology
Author Information
Lynne A. Haney is Professor of Sociology at New York University. She is the author of Inventing the Needy: Gender, Politics, and State Development in Hungary and a coauthor of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (both available from UC Press). She is also the editor of Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context.
