Interrupted life experiences of incarcerated women in the United States

Solinger, Rickie, 1947- (Added Author).

Summary: Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520944565 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520944569 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520252497
ISBN: 9780520252493
ISBN: 0520258894
ISBN: 9780520258891
ISBN: 1282453467
ISBN: 9781282453463
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource ([xiii], 458 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-User. Multi-user. Terms of use -
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction. Certain failures : representing the experiences of incarcerated women in the United States / Ruby C. Tapia -- pt. One. Defining the problem: Unpacking the crisis : women of color, globalization, and the prison-industrial complex / Julia Sudbury -- Glossary of terms / Tina Reynolds -- The long shadow of prison : my messy journey through fear, silence, and racism toward abolition / Jay Whitlock -- Unpeeling the mask / Elizabeth Leslie -- Children of incarcerated parents : a Bill of Rights / San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership -- United Nations Report on violence against women in U.S. Prisons -- Being in prison / Joanne Archibald -- Wearing blues / Kinnari Jivani -- pt. Two. Being a mother from inside: Get on the bus : mobilizing communities across California to unite children with their parents in prison / Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith -- Do I have to stand for this? / Kimberly Burke -- Out of Sight, NOT out of mind : important information for incarcerated parents whose children are in foster care / Children of Incarcerated Parents Program, NYC Administration for Children's Services -- The impact of the adoption and safe families act on children of incarcerated parents / Arlene F. Lee, Philip M. Genty, and Mimi Laver, Child Welfare League of America -- ASFA, TPR, my life, my children, my motherhood / Carole E. -- The birthing program in Washington state / Tabitha and Christy Hall -- Pregnancy, motherhood, and loss in prison : a personal story / Kebby Warner -- What the Parenting Program at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women has meant to me / Mary Alley, A.D., and C.S. -- The storybook project at Bedford Hills / Beth Falk, June Benson, Amorel Beyor, and Alte -- A trilogy of journeys / Kathy Boudin.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.