The right way to be a woman’
Negotiating femininity in a prison-based drug treatment programme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12664483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Torsten Kolind (0000-0001-5685-4695, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Jeanett Bjønne (0000-0002-0122-6197, Aarhus University), Jeanett Bjønness (Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-124 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Punishment & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-4745 • E-ISSN: 1741-3095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1462474517749049 |
| OpenAlex | W2782392679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
Drawing from an ethnographic study in a drug treatment wing for women in a Danish prison, the authors explore how femininity is negotiated between prisoners and staff. It is shown how the staff view the prisoners as both passive and disruptive and how the treatment aims to teach them what staff consider to be an ‘appropriate’ femininity characterised by the women being cooperative, feeling a sense of community, and being less masculine in their appearance. While the prisoners accept the identity constructions imposed upon them by the therapy regime, they also attempt to create alternative femininities. The article discusses whether gender-sensitive treatment approaches can work towards better integration of the women’s past experiences with the new dispositions learned in the treatment programme
Aesthetics · Criminology · Ethnography · Feeling · Femininity · Identity (music · Negotiation · Prison · Sociology · Work (physics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
Grounded theory in practice
Scripting Addiction
Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood
Substance abuse and dependence in prisoners
Toward a Comprehensive Model of Change
Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Women's Imprisonment
The Logic of Practice
What can “Lies” Tell Us about Life? Notes towards a Framework of Narrative Criminology
Sacrosanct or Flawed
Women and Addiction
Prisoner society in the era of hard drugs
When is an offender not an offender
Offender and/or client? Fuzzy institutional identities in prison-based drug treatment in Denmark
Narratives of self and identity in women's prisons
Reassessing Resistance
Recovering Selves
Tactics’, Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons
Narratives About Necessity—Constructions of Motherhood Among Drug Using Sex-Sellers in Denmark
Public/private negotiations in the media uses of young Muslim women in Copenhagen
Street capital
Empowerment in drug treatment
Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility
Rehabilitating Criminal Selves
Getting Gut-Level
Street Codes as Formula Stories
Embodied Surveillance And The Gendering Of Punishment
Men and Women Inmates' Accounts of Their Pathways to Crime
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |