Recovering identity : criminalized women's fight for dignity and freedom /

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"Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rumpf, Cesraéa, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Temas:
Women ex-convicts > United States > Social conditions.
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Dignity > Social aspects.
Ex-détenues > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Identité (Psychologie) > Aspect social.
Dignité > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women, incarceration, and social marginality
  • "They just look at us like we ain't nobody and we don't have rights" : the violence of incarceration
  • "You cannot fight no addiction without god first" : the permanent moral judgment of the criminal-addict label
  • "I feel good about myself now" : recovering identity through employment and appearance
  • "God blessed the child that has her own" : recovering identity through domesticity and mothering
  • "I've gotten so much better than I used to be" : recovering identity through relationships
  • The personal is political : moving toward social transformation
  • Appendix : methodological tensions.

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