Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire

by Lynne Haney

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520261917
• ISBN13: 9780520261914
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"