Can't catch a break : gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility / / Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk
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| Autore: |
Sered Susan Starr
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| Titolo: |
Can't catch a break : gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility / / Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk
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| Pubblicazione: | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.83/70974461 |
| Soggetto topico: | Abused women - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions |
| Female offenders - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions | |
| Women drug addicts - Massachusetts - Boston - Social conditions | |
| Responsibility - Social aspects - Massachusetts - Boston | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | american 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 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Norton-HawkMaureen |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Based 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Can't catch a break |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95870-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786652103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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