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Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance

Faith, Karlene

Publisher:  Press Gang, Vancouver, Canada
Year Published:  1994  
Pages:  338   Price:  $21.95   ISBN:  0-88974-050-X
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7708

"Challenges misconceptions of "deviant" women and investigates the many ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Informed by twenty years of advocacy work with women in prison and many years of research and teaching the the field of criminology, this feminist analysis of women and criminal justice..."
"Covering material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies"


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