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Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries
University of Illinois Press, 1997 Cloth: 978-0-252-02281-4 | Paper: 978-0-252-06879-9 Library of Congress Classification HV9475.W38B87 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 365.6082
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In this shocking study, Anne M. Butler shows that the distinct gender disadvantages already faced by women within western society erupted into intense physical and mental violence when they became prisoners in male penitentiaries. Drawing on prison records and the words of the women themselves, Gendered Justice in the American West places the injustices women prisoners endured in the context of the structures of male authority and female powerlessness that pervaded all of American society. Butler's poignant cross-cultural account explores how nineteenth-century criminologists constructed the "criminal woman"; how the women's age, race, class, and gender influenced their court proceedings; and what kinds of violence women inmates encountered. She also examines the prisoners' diet, illnesses, and experiences with pregnancy and child-bearing, as well as their survival strategies. See other books on: American West | Female offenders | Prisons | Sex discrimination against women | Women prisoners See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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![](https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-472-10732-2-thumb.jpg "The Powers that Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955")
Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Illinois Press, 1997
Cloth: 978-0-252-02281-4
Paper: 978-0-252-06879-9
Cloth: 978-0-252-02281-4
Paper: 978-0-252-06879-9
In this shocking study, Anne M. Butler shows that the distinct gender disadvantages already faced by women within western society erupted into intense physical and mental violence when they became prisoners in male penitentiaries.
Drawing on prison records and the words of the women themselves, Gendered Justice in the American West places the injustices women prisoners endured in the context of the structures of male authority and female powerlessness that pervaded all of American society. Butler's poignant cross-cultural account explores how nineteenth-century criminologists constructed the "criminal woman"; how the women's age, race, class, and gender influenced their court proceedings; and what kinds of violence women inmates encountered. She also examines the prisoners' diet, illnesses, and experiences with pregnancy and child-bearing, as well as their survival strategies.
Drawing on prison records and the words of the women themselves, Gendered Justice in the American West places the injustices women prisoners endured in the context of the structures of male authority and female powerlessness that pervaded all of American society. Butler's poignant cross-cultural account explores how nineteenth-century criminologists constructed the "criminal woman"; how the women's age, race, class, and gender influenced their court proceedings; and what kinds of violence women inmates encountered. She also examines the prisoners' diet, illnesses, and experiences with pregnancy and child-bearing, as well as their survival strategies.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
