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- Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. 8-15
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- PART ONE: DEFINING THE PROBLEM
- pp. 7-10
- 1. Unpacking the Crisis
- pp. 11-25
- 2. Glossary of Terms
- pp. 26-27
- 3. The Long Shadow of Prison
- pp. 28-34
- 4. Unpeeling the Mask
- pp. 35-36
- 5. Children of Incarcerated Parents
- pp. 37-44
- 7. Being in Prison
- pp. 57-60
- 8. Wearing Blues
- pp. 61-62
- PART TWO: BEING A MOTHER FROM INSIDE
- pp. 63-66
- 9. Get on the Bus
- pp. 67-70
- 10. Do I Have to Stand for This?
- pp. 71-72
- 11. Out of Sight, NOT Out of Mind
- pp. 73-76
- 18. A Trilogy of Journeys
- pp. 103-106
- 19. Untitled
- p. 111
- 20. Analyzing Prison Sex
- pp. 112-120
- 21. Who Said Women Can't Get Along?
- pp. 121-124
- 23. The Chase
- p. 128
- 26. Getting Free
- pp. 145-149
- 27. My Name Is June Martinez
- pp. 150-152
- 29. Mother
- p. 156
- 30. Daddy Black Man
- pp. 157-158
- 31. Watershed
- pp. 159-160
- 32. Lit by Each Other's Light
- pp. 165-177
- 33. Tuesday SOUL
- pp. 178-179
- 34. "I lived that book!"
- pp. 180-187
- 35. Changing Minds
- pp. 188-195
- 36. Imagining the Self and Other
- pp. 196-204
- 37. My Art
- p. 205
- 38. My Window
- p. 206
- 39. They Talked
- pp. 207-208
- 40. I Never Knew
- pp. 209-210
- 41. Wise Women
- pp. 211-215
- 42. Women of Wisdom
- pp. 216-219
- 43. Chain of Command
- pp. 220-222
- PART FIVE: STRUGGLING FOR HEALTH CARE
- pp. 223-226
- 44. Hep C, Pap Smears, and Basic Care
- pp. 227-235
- 45. A Dazzling Tale of Two Teeth
- pp. 236-241
- 47. The Death of Luisa Montalvo
- pp. 246-251
- 49. A Plea for Rosemary
- pp. 254-255
- 51. Bill of Rights for Incarcerated Girls
- pp. 257-258
- 53. Women in Prison Project
- pp. 264-270
- 55. Victim or Criminal
- pp. 282-286
- 57. "Did you see no potential in me?"
- pp. 294-300
- 58. Dignity Denied
- pp. 301-305
- 60. The Forgotten Population
- pp. 310-312
- PART SEVEN: STRUGGLING FOR RIGHTS
- pp. 313-316
- 62. Slaving in Prison
- pp. 321-325
- 63. Freedom Gon' Come
- pp. 326-327
- 66. Free Battered Women
- pp. 338-340
- 67. Life's Imprint
- p. 341
- 69. Keeping Families Connected
- pp. 346-351
- 70. Prick Poison
- pp. 352-354
- 72. A Prison Journal
- pp. 361-362
- PART EIGHT: BEING OUT
- pp. 363-366
- 74. Life on the Outside-of What?
- pp. 374-376
- 76. Employment Resolution
- pp. 379-380
- 77. Only with Time
- pp. 381-384
- 78. Child of a Convicted Felon
- pp. 385-387
- 79. Mothering after Imprisonment
- pp. 388-391
- 80. Being about It
- pp. 392-397
- 81. The First Time Is a Mistake...
- pp. 398-399
- 83. Alternatives
- pp. 402-405
- 84. Violent Interruptions
- pp. 406-411
- 85. Prison Abolition in Practice
- pp. 412-418
- 86. Booking It beyond the Big House
- pp. 419-425
- 87. Being Out of Prison
- pp. 426-428
- Contributors
- pp. 429-434
- Production Notes
- p. 459
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520944565
Related ISBN(s)
9780520258891
MARC Record
OCLC
536309553
Pages
480
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No