Research Catalog

Title

Punishment in disguise : penal governance and federal imprisonment of women in Canada / Kelly Hannah-Moffat.

Author

Hannah-Moffat, Kelly, 1967-

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xi, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Reformatories for women > Canada > History
• Women prisoners > Canada > Social conditions
• Female offenders > Rehabilitation > History. > Canada
• Female offenders > Rehabilitation
• Reformatories for women
• Women prisoners > Social conditions
• Weibliche Strafgefangene
• Strafvollzug
• Geschichte
• Kvinnliga fångar > Kanada
• Kvinnliga brottslingar > rehabilitering > Kanada
• Canada
• Kanada

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index.

Contents

1. Mothering the Flock: Maternal Discipline and Pastoral Power -- Rethinking Maternalism: Maternal Rationalities and Strategies -- Christian Mothering as a Social Reform Technique -- Elizabeth Fry -- 2. Mother Knows Best: The Development of Separate Institutions for Women -- The Creation of Separate Institutions for Women Prisoners -- The Andrew Mercer Reformatory and the Reformatory Ideal -- Maternally Based Programs of Prisoner Reform -- Conclusions: Maternal Success or Failure? -- 3. Finding a New Home: From Kingston Penitentiary to the Prison for Women -- Warehousing Women: The Female Unit at Kingston Penitentiary -- Rationale for a Separate Women's Penitentiary: The Nickle Commission, 1921 -- Institutionalization of Women's Knowledges: The Prison for Women, 1934-50 -- 4. Laywomen's Expertise: Women's Prison Reform, 1945-70 -- New Forms of Governing: Rehabilitation and the Woman Prisoner -- The Persistence of Maternal Discipline: Household Management at P4W -- Scientific Interventions -- The Growth of Elizabeth Fry Societies -- 5. Breaking with Tradition: Feminist Reformers and the Empowerment of Women? 1970-96 -- Liberal Feminism and Women Prisoners' Rights Claims -- The Politics of Difference and the Ethic of Care -- Creating Choices, The Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women -- From Vision to Practice -- Redefining Women-Centredness -- 6. Empowering Prison: Neoliberal Governance -- Theorizing Changes -- Renegotiating Boundaries: Responsibilizing the Community and the Offender -- Creating an Empowerable Subject: Supporting Knowledges -- The 'Will to Empower' -- Empowerment: A Flexible Strategy of Government -- The Unempowerable Prisoner: The Triangle of Sovereignty-Discipline-Government -- Conclusion: Stumbling Blocks, Growing Pains, or More of the Same? -- Paradoxes of Women-Centred Corrections.

ISBN

• 0802046908
• 9780802046901
• 0802082742
• 9780802082749

LCCN

2001270859

OCLC

• ocm44905960
• 44905960
• SCSB-1209662

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library