Gender & History; Editors: Eileen Boris, Sara Butler, and Debanuj DasGupta (PDF)

Proposals by: 30.09.2022

This special issue of Gender & History casts a broad net to interrogate confinement, imprisonment and carcerality, inviting submissions on monasteries and gulags, workhouses and indentured service, lock hospitals and asylums, Native boarding schools and homes for wayward girls and delinquent boys, plantation holding cells and chain gangs, detention centers and refugee camps. It seeks pre-modern as well as modern discussions of criminality, including morals policing and “carceral domesticity,” and punishment in terms of institutions and structures of power, including church, family, and state. It encourages investigations of warehousing of people with disabilities and the locking up of the deviant and unruly, along with their degendering and hypersexualization. It seeks work on the treatment and resistance of trans and queer persons in carceral spaces.

The editors are also interested in varieties of ideological and discursive frames, including liberation through the miracles of saints and ideologies of protection through fear of crime. Especially important are studies of the politics of carcerality, political movements and resistance, ranging from moral reform and “carceral feminism” to abolition feminism, as well as hunger strikes and prisoner organizing by those detained and incarcerated.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• unfreedom and social control
• resistance
• the carceral state and carceral strategies; growth of the prison industrial
  complex; mass incarceration; carceral logic
• voluntary confinement and / or penitential incarceration; self-punishment as ideal
• the economics of incarceration; incarceration for profit and its impact on
  gender
• competing masculinities in carceral space. Read more … (PDF)

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