Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists

Author:   Jodie Michelle Lawston ,  Ashley E. Lucas
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
ISBN:  

9781438435312


Pages:   349
Publication Date:   11 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jodie Michelle Lawston ,  Ashley E. Lucas
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9781438435312


ISBN 10:   1438435312
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   11 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations, Charts,Tables 3x Denied cover Artist's statement: Dawna(Lessie) Brown Foreword Kathy Boudin and Ruth Snyder Artist's statement: Malaquias Montoya Acknowledgments 1. From Representations to Resistance: How the Razor Wire Binds Us Jodie Michelle Lawston Section I. Girls, Women, and Families Missing Artist's statement: Ricky A. Taylor Historical Contextualization Jodie Michelle Lawston 2. The Voice of Silence Je'Anna Redwood 3. Doing Time in Detention Home: Gendered Punishment Regimes in Youth Jails Brian Bilsky and Meda Chesney-Lind 4. Healer: A Monologue from the Play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass Ashley Lucas 5. Incarcerated Women: Motherhood on the Margins Barbara Bloom and Marilyn Brown 6. Doing Time with Mom: A Nonfiction Essay Shirley Haviland-Nakagawa 7. ASFA and the Impact on Imprisoned Migrant Women and Their Children Martha Escobar 8. Carceral State, Cultural Stake: Women behind American Bars and Beyond Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen Section II. Sexuality, Health, and Abuse Bound Artist's statement: Joanie Estes-Rodgers Historical Contextualization Jodie Michelle Lawston 9. The Prison Mentality Jane Dorotik 10. ""If I Wasn't Suicidal, That'll Drive You to It"": Women, Jail, and Mental Health Angela Moe 11. Patiently Waiting Jen Myers Caged Innocence Artist's statement: Patricia K. Thorn 12. Transgender Women, Sexual Violence, and the Rule of Law: An Argument in Favor of Restorative and Transformative Justice Linda Heidenreich 13. Prison Rape Johanna Hudnall 14. From Women Prisoners to People in Women's Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary in Antiprison Work Julia Sudbury 15. Giving the Voiceless a Voice Renita Phifer Section III. Education, Writing, and the Arts Caught up on the Whirlwind Artist's statement: Valencia C. Historical Contextualization Ashley E. Lucas, Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comics Artist's statement: Ana Lucia Gelabert 16.Inside-Out: The Reaches and Limits of a Prison Program Simone Weil Davis 17. Desiree Leslie Levitas 18. Restorytive Justice: Theater as a Redressive Mechanism for Incarcerated Women Sara Warner 19. On Visual Politics and Poetics:Incarcerated Girls and Women Artists Jillian Hernandez 20. Hope in a Box: Sanity Sold Separately Sisters of Unique Lyrics (SOUL) 21. The Life Inside: Incarcerated Women Represent Themselves through Journalism Eleanor Novek Epilogue.Identifying Marks: What the Razor Wire Hides Ashley E. Lucas List of Contributors Index

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Jodie Michelle Lawston is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at California State University San Marcos and the author of Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners, also published by SUNY Press. Ashley E. Lucas is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina and the author and performer of the play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass.

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