No Mercy Here - Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

Klappentext In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local! county! and state convict labour systems! while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage! challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Haley
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781469627595
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-2759-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Justice, Power, and Politics; Justice, Power and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology