Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Mapping the Journey -- Introduction -- Experiencing students' life stories -- Outline of the book -- 2 Foucault's Conditions without a Subject -- Introduction -- Changing concept of detention -- Historical apriori conditions -- Educational discourses and detention -- Discussion -- 3 Making, Unmaking, and Resituating the Subject -- Introduction -- Modernist subject -- Educational subject -- Female educational subject of detention -- Discussion -- 4 Qualitative Methodology, Critical Autoethnography, and Self-reflexivity -- Introduction -- Ethnographic, autobiographic, and poststructural origins of autoethnography -- Autoethnography as a qualitative research methodology -- Diverse autoethnographies -- 5 Embodied Life-stories and Counter-stories -- Introduction -- The autoethnographic project -- Life-stories and counter-stories -- Multiply situated subject-positions -- Discussion -- 6 Guilty Readings of Other People's Stories -- Introduction -- Sedimentation, iterability, and performativity -- Suspicious montage of subject-positions -- Epistemologies of resistance -- Discussion -- 7 Agents of Change, Not Subjects or Objects of Discourse -- Introduction -- Dominant discourses and lived experience -- Resisting and disrupting discourses -- Using oppositional methodologies -- Teachers as agents of change -- Lived experience as curriculum knowledge -- Call for action -- 8 Girls behind Bars Reclaiming Education in Transformative Spaces -- Introduction -- How it all began: The first moment January 23, 2003 -- Message in a bottle: The second moment July 4, 2003 -- Romeo and Juliet for You: The third moment February 13, 2004 -- Synthetic snow cones and spicy kebabs:The fourth moment June 21, 2005 -- Chain by chain: The fifth moment August 1, 2006.

The last day: The sixth moment March, 2009 -- New understandings: The seventh moment January, 2012 -- Author's Notes -- List of References -- Index.