TY  - GEN
T1  - Punishment in disguise : penal governance and federal imprisonment of women in Canada
A1  - Hannah-Moffat, Kelly, 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto, Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn244768587
AB  - 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
OP  - 250
CN  - HV9507 .H36 2000eb
SN  - 9781442678903
SN  - 1442678909
SN  - 0802046908
SN  - 0802082742
SN  - 9780802046901
SN  - 9780802082749
KW  - Reformatories for women : Canada : History.
KW  - Women prisoners : Canada : Social conditions.
KW  - Women prisoners : Rehabilitation : Canada : History.
KW  - Female offenders : Rehabilitation : Canada : History.
KW  - Prisons de femmes : Canada : Histoire.
KW  - Prisonnières : Canada : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Criminelles : Réhabilitation : Canada : Histoire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Penology.
KW  - Reformatories for women
KW  - Women prisoners : Rehabilitation
KW  - Women prisoners : Social conditions
KW  - Canada
KW  - Weibliche Strafgefangene
KW  - Strafvollzug
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Kanada
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - History
KW  - Livres numériques.
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