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  • Blake, Stanley E.
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    The culture of punishment : prison, society, and spectacle (2009)
    New York, N.Y : New York University Press
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    ISBN: 9780814739044 , 0814739040
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 251 p. ) , ill.
    Series Statement: Alternative Criminology Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brown, Michelle, 1971- Culture of punishment
    DDC: 303.36
    Keywords: Prisons Social aspects ; Imprisonment Social aspects ; Punishment Social aspects ; Prisons Social aspects ; Imprisonment Social aspects ; Punishment Social aspects ; Imprisonment Social aspects ; Punishment Social aspects ; Prisons Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Criminology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Imprisonment ; Social aspects ; Prisons ; Social aspects ; Punishment ; Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments. The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture an
    Abstract: Introduction : notes on becoming a penal spectator -- Prison theory : engaging the work of punishment -- Prison iconography : regarding the pain of others -- Prison tourism : the cultural work and play of punishment -- Prison portents : Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror -- Prison science : of faith and futility -- Prison otherwise : cultural meanings beyond punishment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : notes on becoming a penal spectatorPrison theory : engaging the work of punishment -- Prison iconography : regarding the pain of others -- Prison tourism : the cultural work and play of punishment -- Prison portents : Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror -- Prison science : of faith and futility -- Prison otherwise : cultural meanings beyond punishment.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    The politics of motherhood : maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile (2009)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 0822973618 , 9780822973614
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 301 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Series
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Motherhood : Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile
    DDC: 305.420983
    Keywords: Motherhood Political aspects ; Women's rights ; Women's Rights history ; Mothers history ; Reproductive Rights
    Abstract: Examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels
    Description / Table of Contents: Public health, managed motherhood, and patriarchy in a modernizing nationLocal agency, changed global paradigms, and the burden of motherhood -- Planning motherhood under Christian democracy -- Gendered citizenship rights on the peaceful road to socialism -- From mothers' rights to women's rights in a nation under siege -- International encounters and women's empowerment under dictatorship and redemocratization.
    Note: "Multi-User , Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index , Made available online by Project Muse , OldControl:muse9780822973614
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