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A woman doing life : notes from a prison for women / Erin George ; edited & introduced by Robert Johnson ; afterword by Joycelyn Pollock.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.V82 F584 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Erin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--Virginia--Case studies.
- Women prisoners.
- George, Erin.
- Life imprisonment--Virginia--Case studies.
- Life imprisonment.
- Reformatories for women--Virginia--Case studies.
- Reformatories for women.
- Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (Va.).
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- A Woman Doing Life is the only book that tells stories of women in prison from the inside out. Author and inmate Erin George draws a vivid and uniquely raw portrait of female life in prison, detailing her own responses to incarceration as well as her observations of prison relationships, death and sickness, reactions from friends and family, and even "cooking" in prison. The text also features poignant stories from other female inmates. Edited by Robert Johnson--esteemed scholar and editor of Victor Hassine's Life Without Parole, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009)--each chapter of the text opens with a helpful introduction that guides students as they read. An Afterword by noted scholar Joycelyn Pollock further helps place inmate testimonies into an academic context. Offering profound insight into the too-often neglected issue of women in the criminal justice system, A Woman Doing Life is a must for courses in women and crime, gender and crime, and women in prison.
- Contents:
- Jail time
- Prison time
- Love in a cold climate
- Violence behind bars : women, mano a mano
- Shakedowns, fakedowns and solitary confinement
- Quality of life (loosely defined)
- Living with loss
- Programs and privileges, and oases of creativity
- The sick and the dead
- Other voices, other venues : self-portraits by women in prison
- Looking out and looking back : recidivism and religion; Remorse and redemption
- Origami heart.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780199734757
- 0199734755
- OCLC:
- 383828067
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