The first section of the book offers insights into gender from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. The second section of the book is thematic focussing on gender in contexts such as work, the law, sexuality, religion, violence and the body, popular culture, the colonial order, cultural diversity etc.
Bibliography of articles in periodicals on the history of gender and prisons, gender, the state and regimes of control,gender and work in prison, gender and the experience of incarceration.