Introduction -- 1 Punitive Immigration Policy and the Effects of Militarization and Racialization on the Detention of Migrant Women in Mexico -- 2 Lived experiences of reproductive wellbeing among women in a Philippine prison -- 3 Domestic Violence, Harm and Resistance: Women Imprisoned for Drug ‘Offending’ in Thailand -- 4 Incarcerated Women’s Meaning-Making of Education in Ukraine Alla Korzh, SIT Graduate Institute, Washington, USA -- 5 Queer approaches to understanding women's experience with punishment, pain and self-harm in Cyprus -- 6 Tropes of Incarceration: Walking the tightrope of ‘deviance’ and ‘criminality’ in India -- 7 Desisting into what? An exploration of desistance from crime after imprisonment among Chilean women -- 8 Women's Imprisonment in Peru Through a Contested Life-Course Lens -- 9 Compliance with a Vengeance: The gender of prison co-governance in Northeast -- 10 Female adolescents deprived of liberty in Chile, gender and human rights: some considerations for a sectoral policy -- 11 Mother, Sister, Daughter, Comrade: Women Political Prisoners in Myanmar’s Democracy Movement -- 12 To be selected from call for papers Epilogue – invited scholar/activist on feminism and decarceration TBC.

This edited book explores new and enduring themes in the gendered experience of incarceration across the world. Capturing global debates and research on women’s treatment, their coping and resistances in penal settings, the collection promotes a feminist agenda that is attuned to the inherently patriarchal and intersectionally oppressive structures of contemporary punishment. It seeks to map policies and campaigns around women’s criminalisation across the world and offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of women’s imprisonment experiences across the Global North and Global South. Each chapter focusses on a different geographic context and theme and aims to provide the intellectual groundwork for a critical, world-wide movement advocating for women’s decarceration. As a whole, the collection offers a robust empirical understanding of women’s punishment in non-western, Global South contexts and also revisits ongoing debates in feminist accounts of punishment in the Global North. In doing so, the collection examines hierarchical geopolitical relations between privileged and underprivileged nations, reflecting global inequalities and structural violence rooted in legacies of imperialism and colonialism. Overall, the edited collection shows how centering women’s peripheralized experiences can radically reshape our understanding of punishment and offers a new intellectual, methodological, and political means through which to think about gendered identity and imprisonment in the 21st Century. Mahuya Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, studying varied manifestations and experiences of the carceral mesh in contemporary urban society. Anastasia Chamberlen is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She is a prison sociologist and feminist criminologist researching the effects and experiences of punishment. .