Private Prison Patriarchy

Within the system, a woman demonstrates all of her roles that not only pertain to her within society, but also those she plays within the prison itself. In normal society, the woman is both a wife, a mother, a form of a teacher, a civilian, and a caregiver or provider, whereas she is all this plus a prisoner, a criminal, a menace, a inmate, and ultimately a woman. Demonstrating all the different roles a woman plays within both society and the private prison systems contributes to the association that many of the women (in both circumstances) often have to deal with oppression from the opposite sex in both the everyday formalities of society as so within the private prisons, therefore demonstrating the sociological theory of patriarchy in the …show more content…
460). It focuses on searching why domination occurs within the livelihoods of those involved within society, but it also can be researched through the study of the private prison system. The prison system works towards making the inmates (male or female) fulfill their punishment while hoping to change the lives of those inmates in order to make them acceptable to society. One way the private prison does this, unfortunately, is through this patriarchy concept of domination. This concept can be viewed in two ways. If one can dominate the other within the private prison system, the inmate surely knows that he/she will be the dominate one that leads the way and can survive anything that occurs within the prison. The second concept occurs when the leadership demonstrates a dominate authoritative attitude in hopes of making the inmate “acceptable” to society while also causing the inmate to do as the leader says. This ideology not only urges the increase of self-confidence, but also increases the conflict that effectively occurs both within the prison and in society, once …show more content…
It can be hidden in more complex practices of exploitation and control; in denial of basic economic resources; in standards of fashion and beauty; in tyrannical ideals of motherhood, monogamy, chastity, and heterosexuality; in sexual harassment in the workplace; in the practices of gynecology, obstetrics, and psychotherapy; and in unpaid household drudgery and underpaid wage work. Violence exists whenever one group controls in its own interests the life chances, environments, actions, and perceptions of another group, as men do to women (pg.