Engendering Justice:
Women, Prisons and Change
A documentary based on The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXI April 8, 2006
Engendering Justice: Women, Prisons and Change from BCRW Videos on Vimeo.
The rate of imprisonment in the United States has been rising at
exponential rates. In the last two decades alone, the population of
incarcerated women has increased by 400 percent. At the heart of these
numbers we find not only a certain philosophy of crime and punishment,
but also complex and largely unexamined attitudes toward those we
imprison. On April 8, 2006, building on an ongoing conversation that
the Barnard Center for Research on Women has facilitated through its
Women Seeking Justice lecture series, we hosted a daylong conference to
investigate the causes and consequences of women's imprisonment both
domestically and abroad. Rebecca Haimowitz weaves segments of this
conference and post-conference interviews in this important film that
considers the ways in which incarceration is ultimately and inextricably
linked to such issues as race, class, education, national identity, and
gender conformity.
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