Interrupted Life
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Interrupted Life

Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Interrupted Life

Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Interrupted Life by Rickie Solinger,Paula C. Johnson,Martha L. Raimon,Tina Reynolds,Ruby Tapia in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. PART ONE: DEFINING THE PROBLEM
  5. 1. Unpacking the Crisis
  6. 2. Glossary of Terms
  7. 3. The Long Shadow of Prison
  8. 4. Unpeeling the Mask
  9. 5. Children of Incarcerated Parents
  10. 6. United Nations Report on Violence against Women in U.S. Prisons
  11. 7. Being in Prison
  12. 8. Wearing Blues
  13. PART TWO: BEING A MOTHER FROM INSIDE
  14. 9. Get on the Bus
  15. 10. Do I Have to Stand for This?
  16. 11. Out of Sight, NOT Out of Mind
  17. 12. The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Children of Incarcerated Parents
  18. 13. ASFA, TPR, My Life, My Children, My Motherhood
  19. 14. The Birthing Program in Washington State
  20. 15. Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Loss in Prison
  21. 16. What the Parenting Program at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women Has Meant to Me
  22. 17. The Storybook Project at Bedford Hills
  23. 18. A Trilogy of Journeys
  24. PART THREE: INTIMACY, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER IDENTITY INSIDE
  25. 19. Untitled
  26. 20. Analyzing Prison Sex
  27. 21. Who Said Women Can't Get Along?
  28. 22. Sorry
  29. 23. The Chase
  30. 24. Why?
  31. 25. Gender, Sexualitty, and Family Kinship Networks
  32. 26. Getting Free
  33. 27. My Name Is June Martinez
  34. 28. King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations
  35. 29. Mother
  36. 30. Daddy Black Man
  37. 31. Watershed
  38. PART FOUR: CREATING AND MAINTAING INTELLECTUAL, SPIRITUAL, AND CREATIVE LIFE INSIDE
  39. 32. Lit by Each Other's Light
  40. 33. Tuesday SOUL
  41. 34. "I lived that book!"
  42. 35. Changing Minds
  43. 36. Imagining the Self and Other
  44. 37. My Art
  45. 38. My Window
  46. 39. They Talked
  47. 40. I Never Knew
  48. 41. Wise Women
  49. 42. Women of Wisdom
  50. 43. Chain of Command
  51. PART FIVE: STRUGGLING FOR HEALTH CARE
  52. 44. Hep C, Pap Smears, and Basic Care
  53. 45. A Dazzling Tale of Two Teeth
  54. 46. Women's Rights Don't Stop at the Jailhouse Door
  55. 47. The Death of Luisa Montalvo
  56. 48. Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities
  57. 49. A Plea for Rosemary
  58. 50. The Thing Called Love Virus
  59. 51. Bill of Rights for Incarcerated Girls
  60. 52. Working to Improve Health Care for Incarcerated Women
  61. 53. Women in Prison Project
  62. PART SIX: SERVING TIME, SENTENCED AND UNSENTENCED
  63. 54. Reading Gender in September 11 Detentions
  64. 55. Victim or Criminal
  65. 56. Detention of Women Asylum Seekers in the United States: A Disgrace
  66. 57. "Did you see no potential in me?"
  67. 58. Dignity Denied
  68. 59. The Longtimers/Insiders Activist Group at Tutwiler Prison for Women
  69. 60. The Forgotten Population
  70. PART SEVEN: STRUGGLING FOR RIGHTS
  71. 61. Incarcerated Young Mothers' Bill of Rights
  72. 62. Slaving in Prison
  73. 63. Freedom Gon' Come
  74. 64. Reducing the Number of People in California's Women's Prisons
  75. 65. The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement
  76. 66. Free Battered Women
  77. 67. Life's Imprint
  78. 68. Testimony of Kemba Smith before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  79. 69. Keeping Families Connected
  80. 70. Prick Poison
  81. 71. The Prison-Industrial Complex of Indigenous California
  82. 72. A Prison Journal
  83. PART EIGHT: BEING OUT
  84. 73. A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After
  85. 74. Life on the Outside-of What?
  86. 75. California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban
  87. 76. Employment Resolution
  88. 77. Only with Time
  89. 78. Child of a Convicted Felon
  90. 79. Mothering after Imprisonment
  91. 80. Being about It
  92. 81. The First Time Is a Mistake...
  93. 82. What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
  94. 83. Alternatives
  95. 84. Violent Interruptions
  96. 85. Prison Abolition in Practice
  97. 86. Booking It beyond the Big House
  98. 87. Being Out of Prison
  99. Contributors
  100. Index