The gendered harms of patriarchal penal power in Myanmar
Notwithstanding recently published studies there is still much to be done to foster deeper understandings of women’s experiences of imprisonment in Southeast Asia (Jefferson and Jeffries in Gender, criminalisation, imprisonment and human rights in Southeast Asia, Emerald Publishing, 2022). This chap...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Geographies of gendered punishment
Year: 2024, Pages: 159-181 |
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| Summary: | Notwithstanding recently published studies there is still much to be done to foster deeper understandings of women’s experiences of imprisonment in Southeast Asia (Jefferson and Jeffries in Gender, criminalisation, imprisonment and human rights in Southeast Asia, Emerald Publishing, 2022). This chapter draws on and takes further our previous work on gender and imprisonment in Myanmar - a country with one of the world’s highest incarceration rates for women - further illuminating women’s harm-filled trajectories through and out of prison. We elaborate on our previous analyses of women’s harsh treatment in prisons and further develop our discussion of the way women are rendered vulnerable by the law and the criminal justice system as well as by embedded patriarchal social norms and martial repression. New data is introduced based on interviews with previously incarcerated women (and men) about the organization and regulation of everyday prison life during the time prior to the military coup of February 2021. Additionally, we draw on interviews with women released after brief periods of detention following the coup, to examine gendered forms of punitive repression in amplified form. Focus is on the way pre-existing deprivations are further stoked by experiences of imprisonment with debilitating consequences. Through the presentation of novel data and grounded analysis we add to the growing body of critical scholarship on Myanmar attentive to everyday struggles and informed by an ethnographic sensibility and contribute to a deeper understanding of the gendered dynamics and inequalities that drive women’s imprisonment. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-181 |
| Physical Description: | Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9783031612763 |