Doing Time Together : Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison /

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By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation's two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Comfort, Megan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Conjugal visits > California > San Quentin.
Prisoners > Family relationships > California > San Quentin.
Prisoners' spouses > California > San Quentin.
Prisonniers > Conjoints > alifornie > San Quentin.
Prisonniers > Relations familiales > Californie > San Quentin.
Visites conjugales > Californie > San Quentin > California > San Quentin.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
prison, prisoners, jail, love, family, familial relationships, romantic relationship, sociology, sociologist, united states of america, usa, incarceration, incarcerated, women, gender, san quentin state, penitentiary, inmates, intimacy, justice, social welfare, public institutions, marginalization, marginalized communities, california, domestic, cultural studies, culture, marriage.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Outside the Prison Walls
  • 2. "On-Line" at San Quentin
  • 3. "We Share Everything We Can the Best Way We Can"
  • 4. "Papa's House": The Prison as Domestic Satellite
  • 5. "It's a Lot of Good Men behind Walls!"
  • 6. The Long Way Home
  • Appendix 1: Setting and Methods
  • Appendix 2: An Orientation to the Research Literature
  • Appendix 3: United States Carceral Population, 1980-2000
  • Appendix 4: Field Documents
  • References
  • Index

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