Description: Further DetailsTitle: JailcareCondition: NewSubtitle: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind BarsAuthor: Carolyn SufrinFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520288688EAN: 9780520288683ISBN: 9780520288683Publisher: University of California PressGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesRelease Date: 05/23/2017Description: Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women's jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for them, Jailcare describes the contradictory ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space presumed to be devoid of care. Sufrin argues that jail is not simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish. Rather, when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence, and racial oppression that characterize these women's lives and their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the margins of society.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 499gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Jailcare
Title: Jailcare
Subtitle: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
ISBN-10: 0520288688
EAN: 9780520288683
ISBN: 9780520288683
Release Date: 05/23/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Jailcare : Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: Health Care Delivery, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Penology, Criminology
Item Height: 0.1 in
Genre: Health & Fitness, Social Science, Medical
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Carolyn Sufrin
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
