Women, incarcerated : narratives from India / edited by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Rimple Mehta

Intoduction: Carceral logics, Gender Justice, and Resistance / Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta -- PART 1: NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE -- The dark night of soul: Survival and despair in prison Diaries / Uma Chakravarti -- 64 days in Lalbazar : anatomy of a torture narratives / Sharmila Purkayastha -- Narratives of confinement, harm and resistance / Mahuya Bandyopadhyay -- PART 2: CONFRONTING INSTITUTIONAL SPACES -- Women, crime and punishment : Indian rhetoric and realities / Shereen Sadiq -- The many tales of love : prison, survival and resistance / Kanupriya Sharma -- Gender and prison structures : a study of two women prisons in Maharashtra / Sadaf Modak -- Time is on my side : negotiating space and time in prison / Rimple Mehta -- Governmentality and centestations : experiences of women recidivists in Mumbai / Mangala Honawar and Vijay Raghavan -- PART 3 : HUMAN PRISONS? CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE -- Redesigning women's prisons for correction / Upneet Lallit -- Impact of pre-Trial detention on women / Madhurima Dhanuka -- Culture therapy in prison : trials and tribulations / B.D. Sharma -- Where do we go from here? : reexamining incarceration as a response to crime / Penelope Tong -- Notes on the contributors -- Index