How Long to Read Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons

How Long Does it Take to Read Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons by Mary Bosworth

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Description

This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is negotiated on a private, individual level, as women often resist the institution simply by trying to maintain an image of control over their own lives. However, their image of themselves as active, reasoning agents is undermined by institutional regimes which encourage traditional, passive, feminine behaviour at the same time as they deny the women their identities and responsibilities as mothers, wives, girlfriends and sisters. Femininity is, therefore, both the form and the goal of women’s imprisonment. Yet paradoxically, femininity also offers the possibility of resistance, because women manage to rebel by appropriating and changing aspects of it.

How long is Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons?

Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons by Mary Bosworth is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons aloud.

What Reading Level is Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons?

Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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