Outlaw women: prison, rural violence, and poverty on the new American frontier

This text argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as 'the Western frontier.' Together, these dynamics comprise an architecture of gendered violence, a theoretical lens applicable to women's experiences of prison throughout the United States in its focus on how the synchronous operations of addiction and compromised mental health, poverty, fraught relationships, and felony-related discrimination undergird women's lives.