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ENGENDERING RESISTANCE:
AGENCY AND POWER IN WOMENS PRISONS

In recognition of the friendship and generosity that I experienced from all the women who took part in my research in HMP/YOI Drake Hall, HM Remand Centre Pucklechurch and in the Womens Annex of HMP Winchester, I dedicate this book to them, in the hope that they may continue to resist the pains of imprisonment.

Advances in Criminology

Series Editor: David Nelken

Titles in the Series

Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Womens Prisons

Mary Bosworth

Integrating a Victim Perspective with Criminal

Justice International debates

Adam Crawford and Jo Goodey

Contrasts in Criminal Justice

David Nelken

Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime

George Pavlich

Blood in the Bank

Social and legal aspects of death at work

Gary Slapper

Governable Places

Readings on governmentality and crime control

Russell Smandych

Engendering Resistance:
Agency and Power in Womens
Prisons

MARY BOSWORTH

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fordham University, New York

First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bosworth, Mary
Engendering Resistance : agency and power in womens prisons.
(Advances in criminology)
1. Women prisoners England 2. Women prisoners Wales
3. Women Identity 4. Women Psychology 5. Women Legal
status, laws, etc. England 6. Women Legal status, laws,
etc. Wales
I. Title
365.6'082'0942

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bosworth, Mary.
Engendering Resistance : agency and power in womens prisons/Mary
Bosworth
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN (invalid) 1-84014-739-3 (hardback)
1. Women prisonersEnglandResearch. 2. Women prisoners
EnglandPsychology. 3. Women prisonersCivil rightsEngland.
4. Prison administrationEngland. 5. Sex discrimination in
criminal justice administrationEngland. 6. PrisonsGovernment
policyEngland. I. Title
HV9649.E5B67 1999
365'6'0820942dc21

9852034
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-1-84014-739-1 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-138-27526-3 (pbk)

Contents

Many people have given me support throughout the completion of this research and its transition from a doctoral thesis to a book. First I would like to thank the Wakefield Committee at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, for awarding me a generous three-year scholarship which enabled me to survive during my Ph.D. I would also like to thank Trinity Hall which funded much of the research, and the staff and Governors of each of the establishments I visited who made me welcome throughout the research. Likewise, I am grateful to the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, Newark, for awarding me a visiting library fellowship so that I could complete my thesis in New York, and to the Prison Inspectorate who allowed me to reproduce their map of womens prisons.

Many thanks are due to Alison Liebling, Tony Bottoms, Eamonn Carrabine, Alison Young, Richard Sparks, Adrian Howe and Dragan Milovanovic for their constructive comments on earlier drafts. Kathy Daly helped me to conceptualize the thesis as a book, as did Professor David Nelken, who also gave me the opportunity to be part of this exciting new series at Ashgate. All of these individuals provided indispensible intellectual and personal guidance, without which this study would not have been possible.

On a more personal level, I would like to thank my family and friends for offering advice, encouragement and enthusiasm. My parents in particular were a constant source of love and support. They read many drafts, most recently in the sweltering heat of a New York summer. Mari, Eleanor, Sarah and Kirsty gave me ideas and affection, offering rich female companionship and laughter when I needed it most. Finally, a special acknowledgement is due to Anthony, with whom I have started a new life in New York. He has been steadfast in his emotional and intellectual encouragement, acting as editor, companion and best friend Thank you.

New York City

The new series Advances in Criminology builds on the success of the International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology. But rather than being dedicated to anthologising thebest of existing work this venture seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to these fields. Volumes so far in press include discussions of Foucault and governmentalily; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; postmodern policing; and womens prisons.

The monograph by Mary Bosworth, Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Womens Prisons is a valuable and sophisticated contribution to recently revived sociological studies of the prison. The author offers an original and often surprising account of the way female prisoners use femininity in their attempt to cope with the pains of imprisonment. Her open espousal of a standpoint methodology geared to understanding and sharing the point of view of her informants should also stimulate interest and debate.

DAVID NELKEN
Series Editor

Introduction
Agency and Power in Womens
Prisons: An Overview

In [research] typically we start off with a question, which we know to be badly formed at the outset. We hope that in struggling with it, we shall find that its terms are transformed, so that in the end we will answer a question which we could not properly conceive at the beginning. We are striving for conceptual innovation which will allow us to illuminate some matter, say an area of human experience, which would otherwise remain dark and confused (Taylor 1985a: 41).

[Feminists] locate individual experience in society and history, embedded within a set of social relations which produce both the possibilities and limitations of that experience (Acker, Barry and Esseveld 1991: 135).

Make sure you get it right then, and tell them how it really is in here (Allison:1 HM Remand Centre Pucklechurch, November, 1995).

There have never been as many men, women and children incarcerated in England and Wales as there are today. The most dramatic increases in the prison population have occurred only in the last few years, soaring from 40,606 at the end of 1992 to just over 65,000 by May 1998 (Braggins 1998: 10). This unforeseen rise has been accompanied by a variety of policy changes including: the conversion of the prison service into a semi-autonomous agency, the building of many new prisons, the commitment to privatizing 10 per cent of the penal estate by the year 2000, and the shift in managerial rhetoric from a concern with justice to a concern with custody (Lygo 1991; HM Prison Service 1993c; Kemp 1996; Home Affairs Committee 1993, 1997: vx; Woolf 1991; Learmont 1995).

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