Women Doing Life : : Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity /

Women Doing Life : : Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity / / Lora Bex Lempert.

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The carceral experiences of women serving life sentences. 2017 Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free PressHow do women – mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers – make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert presents a typ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Lempert, Lora Bex,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Life Imprisonment of Women in America: Gender, Punishment, and Agency
  • 2. Carmela: “Blurred Boundaries”
  • 3. Beginning the Prison Journey
  • 4. Ann and Crystal: Juvenile Lifers as “Minnows in a Shark Tank”
  • 5. Actively Doing Life
  • 6. Desiree: A Journey toward Self-Actualization
  • 7. Correctional Officers or “Us” vs. “Them”: Preserving and Challenging the Binary
  • 8. Eating the Life-Sentence Elephant: “One Day at a Time”
  • 9. Candace: “God Is My Answer”
  • 10. The Way Forward: Policy Solutions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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