Women's Imprisonment in Eastern Europe: 'Sitting out Time'

The field of prison studies has been dominated by an androcentric outlook, with little attention paid to women. Offering a unique theoretical fusion of the sociology of imprisonment, carceral geography, feminism and cultural criminology, Women’s Imprisonment in Eastern Europe: ‘Sitting out Time’ examines how social, political, and cultural factors have shaped the development of gendered penal regimes in Eastern Europe and created an institutional battleground for opposing ideologies.

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