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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- 365/.43/0971
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- 21
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- H36 2000eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 250 p., [8] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 16
- 1 Mothering the Flock: Maternal Discipline and Pastoral Power 32
- Rethinking Maternalism: Maternal Rationalities and Strategies 36
- Christian Mothering as a Social Reform Technique 38
- Elizabeth Fry 43
- Conclusions 56
- 2 Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women 58
- The Creation of Separate Institutions for Women Prisoners 60
- The Andrew Mercer Reformatory and the Reformatory Ideal 69
- Maternally Based Programs of Prisoner Reform 70
- Conclusions: Maternal Success or Failure? 79
- 3 Finding a New Home: From Kingston Penitentiary to the Prison for Women 84
- Warehousing Women: The Female Unit at Kingston Penitentiary 85
- Rationale for a Separate Women's Penitentiary: The Nickle Commission, 1921 96
- Institutionalization of Women's Knowledges: The Prison for Women, 1934–50 99
- Conclusions 103
- 4 Laywomen's Expertise: Women's Prison Reform, 1945–70 105
- New Forms of Governing: Rehabilitation and the Woman Prisoner 106
- The Persistence of Maternal Discipline: Household Management at P4W 111
- Scientific Interventions 116
- The Growth of Elizabeth Fry Societies 121
- Conclusions 147
- 5 Breaking with Tradition: Feminist Reformers and the Empowerment of Women? 1970–96 153
- Liberal Feminism and Women Prisoners' Rights Claims 153
- The Politics of Difference and the Ethic of Care 160
- Creating Choices, the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women 162
- From Vision to Practice 173
- Redefining Women-Centredness 175
- Conclusions 181
- 6 Empowering Prison: Neoliberal Governance 183
- Theorizing Changes 183
- Renegotiating Boundaries: Responsibilizing the Community and the Offender 186
- Creating an Empowerable Subject: Supporting Knowledges 187
- The 'Will to Empower' 189
- Empowerment: A Flexible Strategy of Government 190
- The Unempowerable Prisoner: The Triangle of Sovereignty–Discipline–Government 197
- Conclusions 206
- Conclusion: Stumbling Blocks, Growing Pains, or More of the Same? 209
- Paradoxes of Women-Centred Corrections 210
- Notes 222
- References 244
- Index 268
- A 268
- B 268
- C 268
- D 268
- E 268
- F 269
- G 269
- H 269
- I 269
- J 269
- K 269
- L 269
- M 269
- N 270
- O 270
- P 270
- Q 270
- R 270
- S 271
- T 271
- U 271
- V 271
- W 271
- Illustrations 138
