Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance

Publisher:  Press Gang, Vancouver, Canada
Year Published:  1994
Pages:  338pp   Price:  $21.95   ISBN:  0-88974-050-X
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7708

Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.

Subject Headings

• Criminal Justice System
• Criminology
• Incarceration
• Prisoners
• Prisons
• Women
• Women in Prison