Overview
- Explores women’s experiences of punishment and criminalisation globally
- Puts a spotlight on under-recognised and marginalised perspectives in the field of prison studies
- Draws on feminist and decolonial methodology and activist sensibility
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Keywords
- Prison
- Gender and politics
- Gender and criminal justice
- incarceration
- criminology in the Global South
- political prisoners
- Desistance
- Migrant women
- Human rights
- Decolonial methods
- Feminist methods
- Pains of imprisonment
- Decarceration
About this book
This edited book explores new and enduring themes in the gendered experience of incarceration across the world. Capturing global debates and research on women’s treatment, their coping and resistances in penal settings, the collection promotes a feminist agenda that is attuned to the inherently patriarchal and intersectionally oppressive structures of contemporary punishment. It seeks to map policies and campaigns around women’s criminalisation across the world and offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of women’s imprisonment experiences across the Global North and Global South. Each chapter focusses on a different geographic context and theme and aims to provide the intellectual groundwork for a critical, world-wide movement advocating for women’s decarceration. As a whole, the collection offers a robust empirical understanding of women’s punishment in non-western, Global South contexts and also revisits ongoing debates in feminist accounts of punishment in the Global North.
In doing so, the collection examines hierarchical geopolitical relations between privileged and underprivileged nations, reflecting global inequalities and structural violence rooted in legacies of imperialism and colonialism. Overall, the edited collection shows how centering women’s peripheralized experiences can radically reshape our understanding of punishment and offers a new intellectual, methodological, and political means through which to think about gendered identity and imprisonment in the 21st Century.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, studying varied manifestations and experiences of the carceral mesh in contemporary urban society.
Anastasia Chamberlen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She is a prison sociologist and feminist criminologist researching the effects and experiences of punishment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographies of Gendered Punishment
Book Subtitle: Women’s Imprisonment in Global Context
Editors: Anastasia Chamberlen, Mahuya Bandyopadhyay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61276-3Due: 11 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61279-4Due: 11 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61277-0Due: 11 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1