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Dana M. Britton

At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered Organization

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When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women are imprisoned is growing faster than that of men. Yet, despite increasing numbers of women prisoners and officers, ideas about prison life and prison work are sill dominated by an exaggerated image of men's prisons where inmates supposedly struggle for physical dominance.In a rare comparative analysis of men's and women's prisons, Dana Britton identi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8147-9884-3
  • EAN: 9780814798843
  • Produktnummer: 1639661
  • Verlag: New York Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 376 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 376

Über den Autor


Dana M. Britton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.

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