- Title
- Can prison be a feminist space?: interrogating television representations of women's prisons
- Creator
- Ford, Jessica
- Relation
- The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture p. 613-626
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- There is no doubt that women-in-prison narratives depict a pro-woman space telling and respecting the stories of many different kinds of women; however, the idea of prison as a “feminist utopia” is loaded with contradictions. Prison is, by its very nature, a space intended to dehumanize and depoliticize individuals; therefore, to assert the “feminism” of prison seems counter intuitive. In this chapter, I consider whether televisual depictions of prison can be feminist. This chapter will argue that the “feminism” of women-in-prison series is found in the characters and discourses, but not necessarily in the infrastructure of the prison. Yet the single-gender space of the prison enables stories to be told that have a particular feminist sensibility. I explore this through a close textual analysis of the transnational women-in-prison series Dead Boss (UK 2012), Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and Wentworth (Australia 2013–present).
- Subject
- prison; feminst; television; representation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1425513
- Identifier
- uon:38261
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783030360580
- Language
- eng
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