Author: FAITH, KARLENE
Title: Unruly Women : The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Description: Vancouver, BC, Canada: Press Gang Publishers, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. ISBN: 088974050x. 337 pages including index. Challenges misconceptions of 'deviant' women and investigates the many ways by which women transgress social order. Critically examines patterns of female crimes and punishments, from the witch hunts to the present; institutionalized violence against incarcerated women; women loving women in prison; Native women's acts of resistance; Hollywood's formulaic women-in-prison films; and the revolutionary Santa Cruz Women's Prison Project (1972-76) which Author co-founded. Moderate wear. Drop of soiling to fore-edge else clean and unmarked. Sound working copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Female Offenders Sex Role Feminist Theory Criminology 337 pages including index. Challenges misconceptions of 'deviant' women and investigates the many ways by which women transgress social order. Critically examines patterns of female crimes and Punis. Very Good .

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