Jailcare : finding the safety net for women behind bars / Carolyn Sufrin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sufrin, Carolyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--Medical care--California--San Francisco.

Women prisoners.

Pregnant women--Medical care--California--San Francisco.

Pregnant women.

Reproductive health services--California--San Francisco.

Reproductive health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

1. Institutional Burden to Care

2. Triaging the Everyday, Every Day

3. Cultivating Ambiguity: Normalizing Care in the Jail Clinic

4. The Clinic Routine: Contradictions as Care

Part II

5. Gestating Care: Incarcerated Reproduction as Participatory Practice

6. Reproduction and Carceral Desire

7. Custody as Forced and Enforced Intimacy

8. At Home in Jail

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520963559

0520963555

OCLC:

966410507