text Women doing life : gender, punishment, and the struggle for identity
- Summary
- How do women mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers -- make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of ... Read more
- Contents
- The life imprisonment of women in America: gender, punishment, and agency -- Carmela: "blurred boundaries" -- Beginning the prison journey -- Ann and Crystal: juvenile lifers as "minnows in a shark tank" -- Actively doing life -- Desiree: a journe... Read more
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- Description
- xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- New York University Press 2016
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 305.4 LEM in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 305.4 LEM in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 305.4 LEM in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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