{"id":20776,"date":"2025-09-01T13:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=20776"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:11:35","slug":"20250901-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20250901-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Article by Legal Institute Researchers Explores Expressions of Femininity under Conditions of Carceral Collectivism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new article by researchers from the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Dr. Art\u016bras Tere\u0161kinas and Dr. R\u016bta Vai\u010di\u016bnien\u0117, titled \"Investing in Femininity: A Case Study of Incarcerated Women in Lithuania\", has been published in the international academic journal \"East European Politics and Societies\".<\/p>

The newly published study examines the experiences of women serving prison sentences in Panev\u0117\u017eys Prison, focusing on expressions of femininity, institutional refeminization, and resistance. The article highlights that women who commit crimes violate not only codified legal norms but also socially constructed gender roles associated with normative understandings of femininity. The prison, in this context, becomes an institution of control and discipline aimed at restoring denied femininity.<\/p>

The findings of the qualitative study reveal that femininity among incarcerated women is practiced in various ways, including attention to physical appearance and personal hygiene. However, social status, family responsibilities, and motherhood also play a significant role. Although expressions of femininity are constrained by limited material resources, femininity is still perceived as a form of social capital, an investment, and a part of one's identity \u2013 and in some cases, as a means to ease the suffering caused by imprisonment or to express homoerotic desire.<\/p>

The article is available in English here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lietuvos socialini\u0173 moksl\u0173 centro Teis\u0117s instituto mokslinink\u0173 dr.\u00a0Art\u016bro Tere\u0161kino ir dr.\u00a0R\u016btos Vai\u010di\u016bnien\u0117s straipsnis \u201eInvesting in Femininity: A Case Study of Incarcerated Women in Lithuania\u201c publikuotas tarptautiniame moksliniame \u017eurnale \u201eEast European Politics and Societies\u201c. Naujojoje mokslin\u0117je publikacijoje nagrin\u0117jamos su moteri\u0161kumo rai\u0161ka, instituciniu refeminizavimusi ir pasiprie\u0161inimu susijusios laisv\u0117s at\u0117mimo bausm\u0119 Panev\u0117\u017eio kal\u0117jime atliekan\u010di\u0173 moter\u0173 patirtys. Pastebima, kad nusikaltusios moterys nusi\u017eengia tiek kodifikuotos teis\u0117s normoms, tiek socialiai \u012ftvirtintiems ly\u010di\u0173 vaidmenims, susijusiems su konstruotina moteri\u0161kumo samprata. B\u016btent kal\u0117jimas tampa kontrol\u0119 ir disciplin\u0105 \u012fgyvendinan\u010dia institucija, skirta paneigtam moteri\u0161kumui atkurti. Kokybinio tyrimo rezultatai atskleid\u0117, kad moteri\u0161kumas tarp nuteist\u0173j\u0173 praktikuojamas \u012fvairiais b\u016bdais, \u012fskaitant r\u016bpinim\u0105si fizine i\u0161vaizda ir higienos palaikym\u0105, ta\u010diau taip pat svarbi nuteist\u0173j\u0173 socialin\u0117 pad\u0117tis, \u0161eiminiai \u012fsipareigojimai, motinyst\u0117. Nors moteri\u0161kumo rai\u0161ka d\u0117l materialini\u0173 i\u0161tekli\u0173 tr\u016bkumo tampa ribota, moteri\u0161kumas vis vien suvokiamas kaip tam tikras socialinis kapitalas, investicija ir tapatyb\u0117s dalis, kitais atvejais\u00a0\u2013 kaip b\u016bdas palengvinti \u012fkalinimo bausm\u0117s s\u0105lygojamas kan\u010dias ar i\u0161reik\u0161ti homoerotin\u0119 aistr\u0105. Su straipsniu angl\u0173 kalba galima susipa\u017einti \u010dia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20784,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions\/20784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}