Abstract

TORRADO, María Ruiz. Simone’s folder: objects, gender and foreign status in prison experience. Etnográfica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp.275-298. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.6674.

A folder consisting of 129 prison documents kept by a woman I named Simone is the central topic of the current paper, which seeks to delve into the meaning of imprisonment for foreign women imprisoned in the Basque Country. Through a specific and illustrative case, and using feminist anthropological contributions and proposals about material culture, three topics will be addressed: (i) interactions between the subject and the object; (ii) inequalities related to gender, social class and ethic group/race; (iii) agency and daily resistance techniques to reduce the effects of imprisonment.

Keywords : women inmates; imprisonment; subject-object relationships; gender; foreign status.

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