Punishment and Pleasure
Women, Food and the Imprisoned Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3368375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catrin Smith (Bangor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-214 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00363 |
| OpenAlex | W1973624697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 16 |
Food assumes enormous importance in prison: for many prisoners it conditions their life in custody and, in many respects, is symbolic of the prison experience. This article explores the complex relationship between gender, food and imprisonment through an analysis of data obtained from in-depth interviews and group discussions conducted in three women's prisons in England. The findings indicate that, in prison, where control is taken away as the prisoner and her body become the objects of external forces, food is experienced not only as part of the disciplinary machinery, but also as a powerful source of pleasure, resistance and rebellion. The implications of such findings for health promotion in the prison context are discussed. Here, the pleasures and consolations of food may well constitute a redefinition of what it is to be healthy in this context, one that challenges the dominant meaning constructed in current health promotional discourse
Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Discipline · Imprisonment · Meaning (existential) · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Prison · Promotion (chess) · Punishment (psychology) · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Ecology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
“I decide for myself. I’m like the boss of myself. I can cook when I want.” Prisoners’ experiences with a self-catering food system in a Norwegian low-security prison
Fair Fare?
It Was Just Horrible’
The Whole Thing was Numbingly Bland and it was Deliberately So’
Food refusal as a protest tool. Hunger strikes in Belgian prisons during the interwar period
Bricolage as an expression of self and of cultural and familial foodways among people living in prison-'You make what you can with anything you can get
Prison Food in Denmark
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
How People Interpret Healthy Eating
Control and choice in English prisons
Dining in
Good and Healthy
“Eating is a hustle”
Learning to labor in prison
Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons
Local food consumption during travel
Food and the prison environment
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy
Penitentiary pleasures
Intimate Intrusions Revisited
Baking Bittersweet
The significance of food
Constructing the gendered body in prison cookbooks
I don’t think that’s like a healthy way to be healthy”
Food and order. An ethnography of daily meals and contamination in a Bolivian self-governed prison
Feed them, protect them, give them what they want”
Narratives of self and identity in women's prisons
You are what you eat
Outlaw girls escape from prison
Calories, commerce, and culture
The hidden food
Digesting men? Ethnicity, gender and food
Health promoting prisons – An impossibility for women prisoners in Africa
The Embodiment of Contempt
Feeding Relationships
Women’s protests
Respect and Criminal Justice
Good and bad sugars
Enjoy your food
There’s (no) accounting for taste
Women in Prison
Dealing food
Food in correctional facilities
Food trust in low trust environments. Negotiating food trust in belgian prisons
Acceptance or refusal of convenience food in present-day prison
Introduction
Hungry in hospital, well-fed in prison? A comparative analysis of food service systems
Conscripts’ attitudes towards health and eating. Changes during the military service and associations with eating
Young consumer identity in a restrictive school environment — Addictive substances, symbolic goods and consumer skills
Hungry on the inside
Constructing and Maintaining Family in the Context of Imprisonment
Covert distinction
Feeding migrants to cultivate a moral self
La santé comme mirage des transformations carcérales
Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons
Food and carcerality
Hunger strikes and differential consciousness
A taste of freedom
Defining and Defending 'Unhealthy' Practices
Prison, Material-Organizational Bricolage, and Precarious Frameworks of Normality in an Era of Disruption
Eating behind Bars
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |