Razor wire women [[electronic resource] ] : prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists / / edited by Jodie Michelle Lawston and Ashley E. Lucas

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.6082
• Soggetto topico: Arts in prisons; Female offenders; Prisoners as artists; Prisoners as authors; Women prisoners; Women - Identity
• Altri autori: LawstonJodie Michelle <1977-> LucasAshley E. <1979->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 3x denied / Dawna (Lessie) Brown -- Ruth Snyder / Malaquias Montoya -- From representations to resistance: how the razor wire binds us / Jodie Michelle Lawston -- I. Girls, women, and families : Missing / Ricky A. Taylor ; Historical contextualization / Jodie Michelle Lawston ; The voice of silence / Je'Anna Redwood ; Doing time in detention home: gendered punishment regimes in youth jails / Brian Bilsky and Meda Chesney-Lind ; Healer: a monologue from the play Doin' time: through the visiting glass / Ashley E. Lucas ; Incarcerated women: motherhood on the margins / Barbara Bloom and Marilyn Brown ; Doing time with mom: a nonfiction essay / Shirley Haviland-Nakagawa ; ASFA and the impact on imprisoned migrant women and their children / Martha Escobar ; Carceral state, cultural stake: women behind American bars and beyond / Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen -- II. Sexuality, health, and abuse : Bound / Joanie Estes-Rodgers ; Historical contextualization / Jodie Michelle Lawston ; The prison mentality / Jane Dorotik ; "If I wasn't suicidal, that'll drive you to it": women, jail, and mental health / Angela Moe ; Patiently waiting / Jen Myers ; Caged innocence / Patricia K. Thorn ; Transgender women, sexual violence, and the rule of law: an argument in favor of restorative and transformative justice / Linda Heidenreich ; Prison rape / Johanna Hudnall ; From women prisoners to people in women's prisons: challenging the gender binary in antiprison work / Julia Sudbury ; Giving the voiceless a voice / Renita Phifer -- III. Education, writing, and the arts : Caught up on the whirlwind / Valencia C. ; Historical contextualization / Ashley E. Lucas ; Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comics / Ana Lucia Gelabert ; Inside-out: the reaches and limits of a prison program / Simone Weil Davis ; Desiree / Leslie Levitas ; Restorytive justice: theater as a redressive mechanism for incarcerated women / Sara Warner ; On visual politics and poetics: incarcerated girls and women artists / Jillian Hernandez ; Hope in a box: sanity sold separately / Sisters of Unique Lyrics (SOUL) ; The life inside: incarcerated women represent themselves through journalism / Eleanor Novek -- Identifying marks: what the razor wire hides / Ashley E. Lucas.
• Sommario/riassunto: Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women's incarcerated experiences.
• Titolo autorizzato: Razor wire women
• ISBN: 1-4384-3533-9; 1-4416-9678-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821172903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.