Offending women
Subtitle: power, punishment, and the regulation of desire
By: Lynne A. Haney.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520261907; 9780520261914
Subjects: Female offenders -- California -- Case studies; Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- California -- Case studies; Correctional institutions -- California -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states; title: Limited government: training women what to need; title: Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement; title: Hybrid states and government from a distance; title: State therapeutics: training women what to want; title: The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology; title: The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self; title: Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism.