Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality
How Orange is the New Black Recontextualizes Prisoner Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaspreet K Nijjar (0000-0002-0827-2807, Brunel University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-424 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcab059 |
| OpenAlex | W4251133220 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In a modern-day political and economic climate underpinned by neoliberal, White capitalist, and heteropatriarchal principles, incarcerated populations are burgeoning worldwide. The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) operates as a web of alliances formed by corporations and penal facilities across the globe to criminalize, incarcerate, and exploit low-income women of color. Twenty-first-century women’s prison dramas, while fictional, present innovative, diverse, and realistic portraits of the lives, communities, and inequalities embedded in the PIC. For Fojas, the prison of popular culture “is a space of memory and fantasy” (2017, p. 84) in which new forms of queerness arise from homosocial dynamics. Hence, stories of incarceration invite alternative readings that center its transgressive possibilities, and not just its culturally assimilative aims. The U.S. program, Orange is the New Black (OITNB; Netflix, 2013–2019), is arguably one of the most notable and contemporary examples of a humanizing portrayal of women prisoners
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Criminology · Masculinity · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Prison · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Transgressive · White (mutation · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Gender Studies · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |