Discourse and identity: a study of women in prison in Ireland.

摘要: This dissertation deals with the question of whether women prisoners’ identities are completely subjugated by prison or they able to resist identity subjugation. My thesis is that, although prisoners as prisoners, have developed ways resisting subjugation women. study based on a critical ethnography women’s experiences imprisonment in Ireland both historical and contemporary context. Methodologically informed feminist epistemology, discourse analysis, semiotics. The aim research was explore social spatial imprisonment. data taken from published archived memoirs, historiographies, records reports. quantitative profile currently prison, crimes for which imprisoned sentence imposed upon them. I also conducted series qualitative in-depth interviews 83 During these photographed personal spaces. Using photo elicitation interviews, examined meanings their spaces artefacts displayed within those In addition, interviewed thirty people involved working prisons; content semiotic analysis o f print media representations range newspapers; undertook an examination structures prisons. The material reveals comprehensive prisoner’s Irish system. meaning, effect implications established. main conclusions centre manner shape identities, subjectivities, senses self.