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Razor wire women : prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists / edited by Jodie Michelle Lawston and Ashley E. Lucas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
- SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts in prisons.
- Female offenders.
- Prisoners as artists.
- Prisoners as authors.
- Women prisoners.
- Women--Identity.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women's incarcerated experiences.
- Contents:
- 3x denied / Dawna (Lessie) Brown
- Ruth Snyder / Malaquias Montoya
- From representations to resistance: how the razor wire binds us / Jodie Michelle Lawston
- I. Girls, women, and families : Missing / Ricky A. Taylor ; Historical contextualization / Jodie Michelle Lawston ; The voice of silence / Je'Anna Redwood ; Doing time in detention home: gendered punishment regimes in youth jails / Brian Bilsky and Meda Chesney-Lind ; Healer: a monologue from the play Doin' time: through the visiting glass / Ashley E. Lucas ; Incarcerated women: motherhood on the margins / Barbara Bloom and Marilyn Brown ; Doing time with mom: a nonfiction essay / Shirley Haviland-Nakagawa ; ASFA and the impact on imprisoned migrant women and their children / Martha Escobar ; Carceral state, cultural stake: women behind American bars and beyond / Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen
- II. Sexuality, health, and abuse : Bound / Joanie Estes-Rodgers ; Historical contextualization / Jodie Michelle Lawston ; The prison mentality / Jane Dorotik ; "If I wasn't suicidal, that'll drive you to it": women, jail, and mental health / Angela Moe ; Patiently waiting / Jen Myers ; Caged innocence / Patricia K. Thorn ; Transgender women, sexual violence, and the rule of law: an argument in favor of restorative and transformative justice / Linda Heidenreich ; Prison rape / Johanna Hudnall ; From women prisoners to people in women's prisons: challenging the gender binary in antiprison work / Julia Sudbury ; Giving the voiceless a voice / Renita Phifer
- III. Education, writing, and the arts : Caught up on the whirlwind / Valencia C. ; Historical contextualization / Ashley E. Lucas ; Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comics / Ana Lucia Gelabert ; Inside-out: the reaches and limits of a prison program / Simone Weil Davis ; Desiree / Leslie Levitas ; Restorytive justice: theater as a redressive mechanism for incarcerated women / Sara Warner ; On visual politics and poetics: incarcerated girls and women artists / Jillian Hernandez ; Hope in a box: sanity sold separately / Sisters of Unique Lyrics (SOUL) ; The life inside: incarcerated women represent themselves through journalism / Eleanor Novek
- Identifying marks: what the razor wire hides / Ashley E. Lucas.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438435336
- 1438435339
- 9781441696786
- 1441696784
- OCLC:
- 733048127
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