Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States / / edited by Rickie Solinger [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827947503321
• Autore: Solinger Rickie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]; ©2009
• ISBN: 0-520-94456-9; 1-282-45346-7; 9786612453465
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 pages)
• Disciplina: 365/.430973
• Soggetti: Women prisoners - Family relationships - United States; Children of women prisoners - Services for - United States; Women prisoners - Abuse of - United States; Female offenders - United States; Women prisoners - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing The Experiences Of Incarcerated Women In The United States -- Unpacking The Crisis: Women Of Color, Globalization, And The Prison-Industrial Complex -- Glossary Of Terms -- The Long Shadow Of Prison: My Messy Journey Through Fear, Silence, And Racism Toward Abolition -- Unpeeling The Mask -- Children Of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill Of Rights -- United Nations Report On Violence Against Women In U.S. Prisons -- Being In Prison -- Wearing Blues -- Get On The Bus: Mobilizing Communities Across California To Unite Children With Their Parents In Prison -- Do I Have To Stand For This? -- Out Of Sight, Not Out Of Mind: Important Information For Incarcerated Parents Whose Children Are In Foster Care -- The Impact Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act On Children Of Incarcerated Parents -- ASFA, TPR, My Life, My Children, My Motherhood -- The Birthing Program In Washington State -- Pregnancy, Motherhood, And Loss In Prison: A Personal Story -- What The Parenting Program At The Nebraska Correctional Center For ; Women Has Meant To Me -- The Storybook Project At Bedford Hills -- A Trilogy Of Journeys -- Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression With Safety -- Who Said Women Can'T Get Along? -- Sorry -- The Chase -- Why? A Letter To My Lover -- Gender, Sexuality, And Family Kinship Networks -- Getting Free -- My Name Is June Martinez -- King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations -- Mother -- Daddy Black Man -- Watershed -- Lit By Each Other's Light: Women's Writing At Cook County Jail -- Tuesday Soul -- "I Lived That Book!" Reading Behind Bars -- Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project On College In Prison -- Imagining The Self And Other: Women Narrate Prison Life Across Cultures -- My Art -- My Window -- They Talked -- I Never Knew -- Wise Women: Critical Citizenship In A Women'S Prison -- Women Of Wisdom: An Alternative Community Of Faith -- Chain Of Command -- Hep C, Pap Smears, And Basic Care: Justice Now And The Right To Family -- A Dazzling Tale Of Two Teeth -- Women's Rights Don't Stop At The Jailhouse Door -- The Death Of Luisa Montalvo -- Rights For Imprisoned People With Psychiatric Disabilities -- A Plea For Rosemary -- The Thing Called Love Virus -- Bill Of Health Rights For Incarcerated Girls -- Working To Improve Health Care For Incarcerated Women -- Women In Prison Project Fact Sheets -- Reading Gender In September 11 Detentions: Zihada: The Journey From A Young Pakistani Wife To An Anthrax Suspect -- Victim Or Criminal: The Experiences Of A Human-Trafficking Survivor In The U.S. Immigration System -- Detention Of Women Asylum Seekers In The United States: A Disgrace -- "Did You See No Potential In Me?" The Story Of Women Serving Long Sentences In Prison -- Dignity Denied: The Price Of Imprisoning Older Women In California -- The Longertimers/Insiders Activist Group At Tutwiler Prison For Women -- The Forgotten Population: A Look At Death Row In The United States Through The Experiences Of Women -- Incarcerated Young Mothers' Bill Of Rights: From A Vision To A Policy At San Francisco Juvenile Hall -- Slaving In Prison: A Three-Part Indictment -- Freedom Gon' Come -- Reducing The Number Of People In California Women's Prisons: How "Gender-Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, And Families -- The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement -- Free Battered Women -- Life's Imprint -- Testimony Of Kemba Smith Before The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights -- Keeping Families Connected: Women Organizing For Telephone Justice In The Face Of Corporate-State Greed -- Prick Poison -- The Prison-Industrial Complex In Indigenous California -- A Prison Journal -- A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After -- Life On The Outside-Of What? -- California And The Welfare And Food Stamps Ban -- Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission Of The City And County Of San Francisco -- Only With Time -- Child Of A Convicted Felon -- Mothering After Imprisonment -- Being About It: Reflections On Advocacy After Incarceration -- The First Time Is A Mistake... -- What Life Has Been Like For Me Since Being On The Outside -- Alternatives: Ati In New York City -- Violent Interruptions -- Prison Abolition In Practice: The Lead Project, The Politics Of Healing, And A New Way Of Life -- Booking It Beyond The Big House -- Being Out Of Prison.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.