Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States - Hardcover

Solinger, Rickie; Johnson, Paula C.; Raimon, Martha L.; Reynolds, Tina; Tapia, Ruby

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520252497 ISBN 13: 9780520252493

Verlag: University of California Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Solinger Rickie Johnson Paula C Raimon Martha L Ta

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"Offers an insightful picture of [a] typically forgotten group." Law & Politics Book Review "An important new collection of essays." -- Lee Wengraf Intl Socialist Review "This book is a powerful and impassioned exposition of the realities for incarcerated women." -- Ruth Wyner Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice

Reseña del editor

"Interrupted Life" is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented 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, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520252497
• ISBN 13: 9780520252493
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480