NCJ Number
126231
Journal
Social Justice Volume: 17 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1990) Pages: 5-22
Date Published
1990
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This article presents the research for a proper framework to write a history of women imprisonment in Australia with a focus on the study of criminal laws that punish women differently from men. An extensive review of feminist theory and criminology is included.
Abstract
It emphasizes that the status of research, population, methodology, and adrocentric histories would be presented from a feminist viewpoint and not from the feminist research positions which developed in response to the traditional male-focused viewpoints. A new concept of "standpoint" is seen as the key concept for developing a distinctive feminist epistemology that would be grounded in women's experiences and labor and would not render women as passive or invisible. The history would cover the discipline of women, the diffusion of the discipline, and the concept of biopower. 1 note and 59 references