Interrupted Life - Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

Zusatztext "This book is a powerful and impassioned exposition of the realities for incarcerated women." Informationen zum Autor Rickie Solinger is the author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Rose v. Wade! among other books. She is the editor of Abortion Wars ( UC Press). Paula C. Johnson is Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and the author of Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison. Attorney Martha L. Raimon has directed the Incarcerated Mothers Law Project at the Women's Prison Association and is now Senior Associate at Center for the Study of Social Policy. Tina Reynolds is Co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH) and adjunct lecturer at York College/CUNY. Ruby C. Tapia is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University and the author of Breeding Ghosts: Race! Death! and the Maternal in Visual Culture. Klappentext “Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new.”—Mona Danner, PhD Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Zusammenfassung A collection of writings about imprisoned women in the United States. It offers a view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, and remake life after prison. Inhaltsverzeichnis 97371501

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• Authors: Paula C. Johnson, Johnson Paula C., Martha L. Raimon, Raimon Martha L., Tina Reynolds, Reynolds Tina, Rickie Solinger, Rickie Johnson Solinger, Ruby Tapia, Tapia Ruby
• Assisted by: Paula C. Johnson (Editor), Martha L. Raimon (Editor), Rickie Solinger (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2010
• EAN: 9780520258891
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25889-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Offenders