Engendering carcerality: An introduction.

Boris, Eileen; Butler, Sara M.; Mireles, Alex

Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers; confinement of sex workers; imprisoning of political prisoners, and reforming of youths, taking account of intersectional identities, sexuality and resistance. It looks forward by looking back, engaging in a dialogue with abolitionist movements and current global struggles to encourage critical gendered histories of incarceration and resistance.

GENDER; IMPRISONMENT; WOMEN political prisoners

Gender & History, 2024, Vol 36, Issue 3, p807

0953-5233

Academic Journal

10.1111/1468-0424.12822