Research Catalog

Title

Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States / edited by Rickie Solinger [and others].

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Description

[xiii], 458 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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 those of incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and others. These vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences behind bars, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system. -- from back cover.

Subjects

• Women prisoners > Abuse of
• Women prisoners > Family relationships
• Children of women prisoners > Services for
• Female offenders
• Women prisoners > Abuse of > United States
• Women prisoners > Family relationships > United States
• Children of women prisoners > Services for > United States
• Female offenders > United States
• Women prisoners > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 / Kay 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.
• pt. Three. Intimacy, sexuality, and gender identity inside: Untitled / Celeste "Jazz" Carrington -- Analyzing prison sex : reconciling self-expression with safety / Brenda V. Smith -- Who said women can't get along? / Elizabeth Leslie -- Sorry / Tina Reynolds -- The chase / Holli Hampton -- Why? A letter to my lover / Sheena M. King -- Gender, sexuality, and family kinship networks / Juanita Díaz-Cotto -- Getting free / Amy Stout -- My name is June Martinez / June Martinez -- King County (WA) gender identity regulations / Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention -- Mother / Mayra Collado -- Daddy black man / Cassandra Adams -- Watershed / Kinnari Jivani -- pt. Four. Creating and maintaining intellectual, spiritual, and creative life inside : Lit by each other's light:women's writing at Cook County Jail / Ann Fowell Stanford -- Tuesday SOUL / Kinnari Jivani -- "I lived that book!" Reading behind bars / Megan Sweeney -- Changing minds : a participatory action research project on college in prison / Michelle Fine [and others] -- Imagining the self and other : women narrate prison life across cultures / Lynne Haney and András Tapolcai -- My art / Kinnari Jivani -- My window / Michele Molina -- They talked / Kinnari Jivani -- I never knew / Darlene Dixon -- Wise women : critical citizenship in a women's prison / Tanya Erzen -- Women of wisdom : an alternative community of faith / Suzanne Jabro and Kelly Kester-Smith -- Chain of command / Kinnari Jivani -- pt. Five. Struggling for health care: Hep C, pap smears, and basic care : justice now and the right to family / Johanna Hoffman -- A dazzling tale of two teeth / Tracy Lynn Hardin -- Women's rights don't stop at the jailhouse door / Rachel Roth -- The death of Luisa Montalvo / Nancy Stoller-- Rights for imprisoned people with psychiatric disabilities / RIPPD -- A plea for rosemary / Beverly (Chopper) Henry -- The thing called love virus / Tiffany Jackson -- Bill of health rights for incarcerated girls / Residents of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center -- Working to improve health care for incarcerated women / Sheila R. Enders -- Women in prison project fact sheets / Correctional Association of New York.
• pt. Six. Serving time, sentenced and unsentenced: Reading gender in September 11 detentions : Zihada : the journey from a young Pakistani wife to an anthrax suspect / Irum Shiekh -- Victim or criminal : the experiences of a human-trafficking survivor in the U.S. immigration system / Leticia M. Saucedo -- Detention of women asylum seekers in the United States : a disgrace / Marleine Bastien and Rosta Telfort -- "Did you see no potential in me?" The story of women serving long sentences in prison / Kathy Boudin -- Dignity denied : the price of imprisoning older women in California / Legal Services for Prisoners with Children -- The longertimers/insiders activist group at Tutwiler Prison for women / Erline Bibbs -- The forgotten population : a look at death row in the United States through the experiences of women / Capital Punishment Project [and others] -- pt. Seven. Struggling for rights : Incarcerated young mothers' bill of rights : from a vision to a policy at San Francisco Juvenile Hall / Sophia Sanchez -- Slaving in prison : a three-part indictment / shawnna d., the Fire Inside Editorial Collective, and Edaleen Smith -- Freedom gon' come / Cassandra Adams -- Reducing the number of people in California women's prisons : how "gender-responsive prisons" harm women, children, and families / Californians United for a Responsible Budget -- The gender-responsive prison expansion movement / Cynthia Chandler -- Free battered women / Linda Field and Andrea Bible -- Life's imprint / Michele Molina -- Testimony of Kemba Smith before the inter-american commission on human rights -- Keeping families connected : women organizing for telephone justice in the face of corporate-state greed / Lauren Melodia and Annette Warren Dickerson -- Prick poison / Kinnari Jivani -- The prison-industrial complex in indigenous California / Stormy Ogden -- A prison journal / Tammica Summers.
• pt. Eight. Being out : A former battered woman celebrating life after / Lorrie Sue McClary -- Life on the outside-of what? / Alfreda Robinson-Dawkins -- California and the welfare and food stamps ban / All of Us or None -- Employment resolution : human rights commission of the City and County of San Francisco / All of Us or None -- Only with time / Tina Reynolds -- Child of a convicted felon / Anonymous -- Mothering after imprisonment / Margaret Oot Hayes -- Being about it : reflections on advocacy after incarceration / Martha L. Raimon [and others] -- The first time is a mistake ... / Patricia Zimmerman -- What life has been like for me since being on the outside / Freda Swinney -- Alternatives : ATI in New York City / Alexandra Bell and Leche -- Violent interruptions / Noelle Paley and Joshua Price -- Prison abolition in practice : The LEAD Project, the politics of healing, and a new way of life / Setsu Shigematsu, Gwen D'Arcangelis, and Melissa Burch -- Booking it beyond the big house / Jean Trounstine -- Being out of prison / Joanne Archibald.

Call Number

Sc D 20-398

ISBN

• 9780520252493
• 0520252497

LCCN

2009023612

OCLC

317461754

Title

Interrupted life : experiences of incarcerated women in the United States / edited by Rickie Solinger [and others].

Imprint

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

COLLECTION OF NEW ESSAYS, ETC. ON & BY IMPRISONED WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.

Added Author

Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Research Call Number

Sc D 20-398