Carolyn Sufrin Jailcare (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: JailcareCondition: NewEAN: 9780520288683ISBN: 9780520288683Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/23/2017Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Carolyn SufrinLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind BarsISBN-10: 0520288688Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesRelease 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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