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Birth Behind Bars : The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodriguez Carey, Rebecca M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
- Women prisoners.
- Pregnant women--United States--Social conditions.
- Pregnant women.
- Prisoners--Medical care--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Prenatal care--United States.
- Prenatal care.
- Discrimination in medical care--United States.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Birth Behind Bars provides a rare yet intimate portrait into the lives of pregnant women in prison providing critical insight into how incarceration transforms pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, showing how the prison system works in simultaneity with other carceral systems to regulate and control incarcerated women threatening health and undermining families"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Pregnancy Like No Other
- Welcome to Prison: Two Pink Lines and the Disruption of Plans
- The Unruly Maternal Body: Struggles to Be Heard
- Pregnancy 101: The (Un)Making of Mothers
- The Ultimate Cage: Birth as a Site of Surveillance and Control
- Silenced Cries: Punishment in the Postpartum Period
- Coming Home: Mothering on the Margins
- Conclusion: Beyond the Prison Gates.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781479815845
- 1479815845
- OCLC:
- 1514636564
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