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INTERRUPTED LIFE
EXPERIENCES OF INCARCERATED WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES |
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Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon |
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Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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£64.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0520252497 |
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9780520252493 |
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2010 |
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480 |
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A collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States. It features scores of voices from inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. |
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"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. |
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8 b/w photographs |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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