TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender Bound
T2 - Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–2018
AU - Greene, Joss
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - A core feature of prisons is their institutionalization of a fixed male/fe-male binary. Yet, definitions of and responses to prison gender bound-ary violation are historically variable. This article draws on archival data, 20 months of ethnography, and 136 interviews to investigate the making, managing, and navigating of gender boundaries in California men’s prisons from 1941 to 2018. As prisons transformed over the period of this study, prison administrators managed gender boundaries on the basis of the changing penal logics and resources at their disposal (successively using strategies of segregation, treatment, risk manage-ment, and bureaucratic assimilation). Prisoners, in turn, made strategic choices about navigating gender boundaries to deal with the pains of confinement in shifting penal contexts. Prison gender boundaries thus reflect an evolving conflict between the prison’s efforts to label, control, and confine bodies and prisoners’ capacity to resist.
AB - A core feature of prisons is their institutionalization of a fixed male/fe-male binary. Yet, definitions of and responses to prison gender bound-ary violation are historically variable. This article draws on archival data, 20 months of ethnography, and 136 interviews to investigate the making, managing, and navigating of gender boundaries in California men’s prisons from 1941 to 2018. As prisons transformed over the period of this study, prison administrators managed gender boundaries on the basis of the changing penal logics and resources at their disposal (successively using strategies of segregation, treatment, risk manage-ment, and bureaucratic assimilation). Prisoners, in turn, made strategic choices about navigating gender boundaries to deal with the pains of confinement in shifting penal contexts. Prison gender boundaries thus reflect an evolving conflict between the prison’s efforts to label, control, and confine bodies and prisoners’ capacity to resist.
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U2 - 10.1086/723433
DO - 10.1086/723433
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85151426885
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 128
SP - 993
EP - 1030
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 4
ER -