Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women's Fight for Dignity and Freedom

Rumpf, Cesraéa

ISBN 10: 0520376994 / ISBN 13: 9780520376991

Verlag: University of California Press, 2023

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Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.
 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Cesraéa Rumpf is Associate Director of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
 

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Titel: Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women's ...
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good