Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women /

Widely hailed as a stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton is the remarkable life story of the renowned activist Susan Burton. In this "stirring and moving tour-de-force" (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Burton, Susan (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization)) (Autor), Lynn, Cari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New Press, 2019.
Temas:
Burton, Susan > (Founder of A New Way of Life (Organization))
African American women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women ex-convicts > United States > Biography.
Women prisoners > United States > Biography.
Abused women > United States > Biography.
Women drug addicts > United States > Biography.
Réformatrices sociales noires américaines > États-Unis > Biographies.
Ex-détenues > États-Unis > Biographies.
Prisonnières > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes victimes de violence > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes toxicomanes > États-Unis > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Abused women.
African American women social reformers.
Women drug addicts.
Women ex-convicts.
Women prisoners.
United States.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Michelle Alexander
  • Prologue
  • Now what?
  • Land of opportunity
  • Daddy's girl
  • Hit the road
  • The sacrifice
  • Things you don't talk about
  • The life
  • From the skillet to the frying pan
  • No justice, no peace
  • A new drug
  • Incarceration nation
  • Collateral damage
  • The revolving door
  • The vicious cycle
  • Hurt people
  • A tale of two systems
  • A way out
  • Finding purpose
  • A new way of life
  • The wall of no
  • Who's profiting from our pain?
  • Women and prison
  • A kindred spirit
  • Taking food off the table
  • Broke leg house
  • From trash to treasure
  • All of us or none
  • Treating the symptoms and the disease
  • The meaning of life
  • The women from Orange County
  • Being beholden
  • Living an impossible life
  • The house that discrimination built
  • Women organizing for justice and opportunity
  • What would Ms. Sybil Brand think?
  • Without representation
  • Prop 47
  • The movement
  • The arc bends toward justice.

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