Dana M. Britton is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, at Kansas State University, USA.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Gender and Prison History: Penitence for the privileged: manhood, race and penitentiaries in early America, Mark E. Kann; Race, gender and prison history: from the convict lease system to the supermax prison, Angela Y. Davis; 'One female prisoner is of more trouble than 20 males': women convicts in Illinois prisons, 1835-1896, L. Mara Dodge; Wretched, hatless and miserably clad: women and the inebriate reformatories from 1900-1913, G. Hunt, J. Mellor and J. Turner; Following the rules? Women's responses to incarceration, New Zealand, 1880-1920, Bronwyn Dalley; Situating sex: prison sexual culture in the mid-20th century United States, Regina G. Kunzel; A brief history of doing time: the California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s, Rosemary Gartner and Candace Kruttschnitt. Gender, the State and Regimes of Control: Prisons that empower: neo-liberal governance in Canadian women's prisons, Kelly Hannah-Moffat; Homeboys, babies, men in suits: the State and the reproduction of male dominance, Lynne Haney; Embodied surveillance and the gendering of punishment, Jill A. McCorkel ; Gender theory and prison sociology: using theories of masculinities to interpret the sociology of prisons for men, Carolyn Newton. Gender and Work in Prison: Gendered organizational logic: policy and practice in men's and women's prisons, Dana M. Britton; Women doing a man's job: female prison officers working in a male prison, Louise Farnsworth ; A man's world: gender issues in working with male sex offenders in prison, Malcolm Cowburn; Cat fights and gang fights: preference for work in a male-dominated organization, Dana M. Britton. Gender and the Experience of Incarceration: Doing her own time? Women's responses to prison in the context of the old and the new penology, Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner and Amy Miller; Tougher than the rest? Men in prison, Joe Sim; Re/constructing black masculinity in prison, M. Nandi; Resistance

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