Abstract
Empowerment for incarcerated women often confounds advocates who struggle to support inmates in developing personal agency within the restrictive environments of penal institutions. In this essay, we provide a narrative analysis of three oral history interviews we conducted with inmates participating in Resolana, a women's education and empowerment program in the Dallas County Jail. Specifically, we explicate performative challenges and opportunities in imagining “alternative futures” by exploring lived narratives as they intersect with cultural expectations of gender, race, and class. Although constrained by normative gender metanarratives, our analysis demonstrates how we might better understand incarcerated women's stories as beginning to re-narratize improved futures for themselves.
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