Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in increasingly widespread community-based prisons. Incorporating vivid, sometimes shocking observations of daily life, Haney probes the dynamics of power over women's minds and bodies that play out in two such institutions in California.