Punish and critique

Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6552182
AutoresAdrian Howe (0000-0002-4734-3938)
Año1994
Páginas252
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPunish and critique (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
Open LibraryOL1425815M
ISBN9780415051910, 9780415051903
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas62

Over the past twenty-five years, a range of critical - that is, Marxist, poststructuralist and, less frequently, feminist - perspectives has been brought to bear on the subject of punishment and, in particular, on the question of imprisonment in Western capitalist societies. Considered together, these critical views constitute a formidable challenge to traditional ways of conceptualising punishment. Yet, for all the advances made, the new critical perspectives remain deeply flawed in a significant, but as yet barely acknowledged, way - with very few exceptions they are profoundly masculinist. Punish and Critique begins the task of exploring what a theoretically-informed feminist analysis of penality might look like and, in the process, uncovers a series of disjunctions in the recent critical analyses - for example, disjunctions between 'social histories' of prison regimes on men and feminist histories of the imprisonment of women. Most crucially, the book unveils a radical disengagement between two current critical theoretical projects: masculinist studies of the emergence of punishment regimes in the context of the state's power to punish, and feminist studies, which map the differential impact of disciplinary power on lived female bodies. In Punish and Critique Adrian Howe argues that a more fully social understanding of punishment must be informed by feminist research on women's imprisonment and by poststructuralist studies of the disciplining of women's bodies. Punish and Critique will be invaluable reading to all students, lecturers and professionals in criminology, women's studies and sociology as well as to those working in prisons and the probation service

Feminist theory · Imprisonment · Punishment · Women prisoners · Emprisonnement · Féminisme · Feminismus · Feminist jurisprudence · Feministische Philosophie · Frauenstrafvollzug · Gevangenisstraf · Penologie · Penology · Philosophy · Prisoners · Prisonnières · Social Science · Strafe · Straffen · Strafrecht · Strafrechtstheorie · Théorie féministe · Vrouwen