Prison Stories: Women Scholars’ Experiences Doing Research Behind Bars

Jennifer Schlosser

doi:10.5771/9781793600615

Summary

This anthology looks deeply at women researchers’ personal stories, struggles, and successes within the context of conducting research in the male-dominated sphere of prison studies. Their insights provide an analytical resource from which readers can better understand the context of doing prison research and the theoretical and methodological challenges that come with it. Their autoethnographic stories shed light on the unique issues faced by women prison researchers and provide a roadmap for understanding the novel strategies, methodological landmines, and epistemological challenges for those who will come after them. Their experiences as women investigators are couched in a distinct set of challenges. This book is intended to highlight those researchers’ challenges and also, to celebrate their successes.

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0060-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0061-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 202
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Chapter 1 The Endlessly Fascinating and Depressing Rabbit Hole of Prisons No access
2. Chapter 2 Reflections on Team Research in Carceral Settings No access
3. Chapter 3 A Woman’s Place No access
1. Chapter 4 Cloaked in Liminality No access
2. Chapter 5 “Just Listen, People!” No access
1. Chapter 6 Complicity and Compassion No access
2. Chapter 7 Empathy and Identity No access
3. Chapter 8 On the Possibilities of Emotional Praxis for Feminist Prison Research No access
1. Chapter 9 From Captive Audience to Cultural Penology No access
2. Chapter 10 Women in Our Own Right or “Honorary Men”? No access
3. Chapter 11 “You’ve Got a Hard Edge!” No access
Index No access Pages 193 - 198
About the Contributors No access Pages 199 - 202