Women, Film, and Law

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

Suzanne Bouclin is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She has published in both French and English in a wide array of periodicals, including the Canadian Journal of Women in the Law, Public Law, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and the e-journal Literature, History of Ideas, Images and Societies of the English-Speaking World.

Yvonne D. Sims, associate professor, English and Modern Language, South Carolina State University:

Tracing filmic and television portrayals of women in prison, Suzanne Bouclin situates these representations within the current discourse of how women inmates are treated in real life. This is a very important conversation that is overlooked at times.