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Razor wire women prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists

Title
Razor wire women [electronic resource] : prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists / edited by Jodie Michelle Lawston and Ashley E. Lucas.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Lawston, Jodie Michelle, 1977-
  • Lucas, Ashley E., 1979-
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 325 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Series Statement
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
Uniform Title
  • Razor wire women (Online)
  • SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Subject
  • Women prisoners
  • Female offenders
  • Women > Identity
  • Prisoners as authors
  • Prisoners as artists
  • Arts in prisons
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010031925
OCLC
ssj0000525202
Title
Razor wire women [electronic resource] : prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists / edited by Jodie Michelle Lawston and Ashley E. Lucas.
Imprint
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.
Series
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Lawston, Jodie Michelle, 1977-
Lucas, Ashley E., 1979-
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