Offending women [electronic resource] : power, punishment, and the regulation of desire / Lynne A. Haney

Author:: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967-
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Physical Description:: xii, 287 p. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

Introduction: an ethnographic journey across states -- Limited government: training women what to need -- Deconstructing dependency: needs, rights, and the struggle for entitlement -- Hybrid states and government from a distance -- State therapeutics: training women what to want -- The empowerment myth: social vulnerability as personal pathology -- The enemies within: fighting the sisters and numbing the self -- Conclusion: states of disentitlement and the therapeutics of neoliberalism.

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9780520261907 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520261909 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520261914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520261917 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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