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Incarcerated women : a history of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons /
This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze women's efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Secret Horrors": enslaved women and children in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, 1833-1862 / Brett Josef Derbes
- "In the care of the supposed powerful state": women and children in the Virginia Penitentiary, 1800-1883 / Hilary L. Coulson
- Letters from inside: prison writings from Eastern State Penitentiary in the nineteenth century / Erica Rhodes Hayden
- "I thought if I got a chance I would do it": sexual negotiation by black women convicts in Texas, 1875-1915 / Theresa R. Jach
- "I beg for your mercy": the business of black women's bodies in the carceral state, 1880s-1960s / T. Dionne Bailey
- Discipline, resistance, and social control at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, 1930-1962 / L. Mara Dodge
- Making mothers: teaching the virtues of motherhood at Westfield Reformatory, 1950s-1960s / Ilse Denisse Catalan
- "It's a way to get out of prison": writing and teaching in women's prisons / Breea C. Willingham.