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Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering
About this book
As the fastest growing prison population worldwide, more and more women are living in cages and most of them are mothers. This alarming trend has huge ramifications for women, children and communities across the globe. Empathy for mothers behind bars and concern for criminalized mothers in the community is in short supply. Mothers are criminalized for their vulnerabilities and for making unpopular but difficult choices under material and ideological conditions not of their own choosing. Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering shines a spotlight on mothers who are, by law or social regulation, criminalized and examines their troubles and triumphs. This book offers a critical and compassionate lens on social (in)justice, mass incarceration, and collective miseries women experience (i.e., economic inequality, gendered violence, devalued care work, lone-parenting etc.). This book is also about mothers' encounters with systems of control, confinement, and criminalization, but also their experiences of care.
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Yes, you can access Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering by Joanne Minaker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- From Criminalizing Mothering to Criminalized Mothers
- Part I: Discourses and Practices of Maternal Criminalization
- 1. For My Kids
- 2. Treasures
- 3. Settler Colonialism and Carceral Control of Indigenous Mothers and their Children
- 4. “Sadly … it appears the mother … saw more of the police … than [she] did [her] children”1
- 5. Mothering Outside-In
- 6. International Law Criminalizing Motherhood
- 7. Race, Nation and Citizenship in “Mothers Who Kill Their Children”
- 8. Legal and Medical Maneuvers
- 9. Pregnant, Incarcerated and Overlooked
- Part II: Maternal Narratives/ Beyond Criminalization
- 10. (M)othering with HIV
- 11. “Do You Have My Son?”
- 12. Mothering at the Margins
- 13. Mothering in the Context of Domestic Abuse and Encounters with Child Protection Services
- 14. Marginalization and Hope
- 15. “Something Worth Living For”
- 16. My Mothering Story
- Contributor Notes