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Changing bodies, ambivalent subjectivities and women's punishment

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Chamberlen, Anastasia (2017) Changing bodies, ambivalent subjectivities and women's punishment. Feminist Criminology, 12 (2). pp. 125-144. doi:10.1177/1557085116689134

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085116689134

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Abstract

This article seeks to explore the punishment–body relation by looking at women’s experience of imprisonment and their embodied identities. It traces the situational construction of bodies and subjectivities, and maps changes in women’s self-perceptions and body-image in and out of prison. Through examples from a qualitative study I conducted with women who experienced punishment in England, I show that while punishment targets the prisoner’s body and often succeeds in inscribing and stigmatizing it with painful experiences and scarred identities, the prisoner maintains a sense of subjectivity and self in custody through her body. She relies on it to make sense of her lived experiences, to survive punishment and often to resist its lasting effects, and uses it to reconstruct and manage an ambivalent, embodied identity. From this perspective, I propose that the prisoner body is understood as both the object and as the subject of modern punishment.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Women prisoners, Women prisoners -- Clothing, Women prisoners -- Clothing -- Social aspects, Body image in women, Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration, Reformatories for women, Female offenders -- Effect of imprisonment on, Female offenders -- Rehabilitation
Journal or Publication Title: Feminist Criminology
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
ISSN: 1557-0851
Official Date: 1 April 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
1 April 2017Published
5 February 2017Available
10 September 2016Accepted
Volume: 12
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 125-144
DOI: 10.1177/1557085116689134
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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