04795nam 2201045 450 991078665210332120230126213234.00-520-95870-510.1525/9780520958708(CKB)3710000000167723(EBL)1711023(SSID)ssj0001261567(PQKBManifestationID)12523608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261567(PQKBWorkID)11205722(PQKB)10469874(MiAaPQ)EBC1711023(DE-B1597)518920(OCoLC)883632076(DE-B1597)9780520958708(Au-PeEL)EBL1711023(CaPaEBR)ebr10891282(CaONFJC)MIL625751(EXLCZ)99371000000016772320140719h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCan't catch a break gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility /Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-HawkOakland, California :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28279-5 0-520-28278-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --List of Tables --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick --2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility --3. "The Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration --4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World --5. "It's All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic --6. Higher Powers: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State --7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted --8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail" --Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward --Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview --Notes --References --IndexBased on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.Abused womenMassachusettsBostonSocial conditionsFemale offendersMassachusettsBostonSocial conditionsWomen drug addictsMassachusettsBostonSocial conditionsResponsibilitySocial aspectsMassachusettsBostonamerican prison system.american studies.bad choices.boston.civic.class and gender.criminalization.cultural studies.day to day lives.discrimination.discriminatory politics.drug abuse.drugs.gender studies.human condition.incarceration.ineffective programs.local and federal government.mass incarceration.personal flaws.personal responsibility.prison system.prison.sexual abuse.social inequality.social programs.therapeutic programs.urban sociology.violence in society.violent communities.welfare.women.Abused womenSocial conditions.Female offendersSocial conditions.Women drug addictsSocial conditions.ResponsibilitySocial aspects362.83/70974461Sered Susan Starr1014521Norton-Hawk MaureenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786652103321Can't catch a break3818889UNINA