The pragmatic ideal: Mary Field Parton and the pursuit of a progressive society

experimental rehabilitation concept of culture therapy, a topic that has been discussed in the academia only by Dr. Tumpa Mukherjee and Dr. Nayanee Basu. Segregated into these three different themes, the book brilliantly deals with important issues in feminist criminological discourse. By presenting the narratives of heterogenous groups of incarcerated women, that is, political prisoners, non-political prisoners, foreigners in the prison, those awaiting trial, and those convicted, this book successfully unfolds the issues of these women via their own voices. At the same time, the book presents narratives from different periods, starting from the post-colonial era to the period of the Emergency and contemporary time, providing a comprehensive historical account of the transformation of a carceral system and the condition of incarcerated women in India to scholars in criminology and feminist carceral studies.