Out of Order (Paperback)

Introduction  1. Violence, laws and commissions: preparing for the detention of women  2. Inside the carceral network, 1972-98  3. Paradoxes of women's political imprisonment: sociological narratives and closures  4. The dynamics of punishment and resistance in Northern Ireland's prisons  5. 'Nor meekly serve our time': a continuum of resistance  6. 'Making space for ourselves': reconstructing a prison community  7. 'We are not criminals': political identity as resistance  8. The turning of the screw: active disengagement, intimidation and the conditioning of staff  9. 'Our bodies are weapons of war': a penal dialectic of the body  10. 'Working with the system': resistance in the context of 'normalization', 1986-1998  11. 'Turningthe place inside out': extending the constituency of prison struggle  12. Conclusion: 'Doing your time right' - penal pain, resistance and survival