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Author | : Hugh Ryan |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781645036654 |
Download The Women's House of Detention Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.
Author | : Ayelet Waldman |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-07-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786632306 |
Download Inside This Place, Not of It Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.
Author | : Silja Talvi |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1580051952 |
Download Women Behind Bars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and administrators to offer insight into the societal impact of female incarceration. Original.
Author | : Tomasa Cuevas |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438400144 |
Download Prison of Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prison of Women presents oral testimonies of women incarcerated following the Spanish Civil War. The primary voice in the collection, Tomasa Cuevas, spent many years in prisons throughout Spain as a political prisoner. After the death of Franco in 1975, Cuevas began to collect oral testimonies from women she had known in prison as she traveled throughout Spain recording their stories. These, along with hers, eventually were published in three volumes in Spain. Prison of Women is a collaboration between Tomasa Cuevas and Mary E. Giles, translator and editor, who wrote the introduction and afterword, and provided contextual information in notes and a glossary. The testimonies offer a compelling record of the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War, the aftermath of that horrendous struggle, and a revealing testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Author | : Megan Sweeney |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080789835X |
Download Reading Is My Window Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. She outlines the history of reading and education in U.S. prisons, highlighting how the increasing dehumanization of prisoners has resulted in diminished prison libraries and restricted opportunities for reading. Although penal officials have sometimes endorsed reading as a means to control prisoners, Sweeney illuminates the resourceful ways in which prisoners educate and empower themselves through reading. Given the scarcity of counseling and education in prisons, women use books to make meaning from their experiences, to gain guidance and support, to experiment with new ways of being, and to maintain connections with the world.
Author | : Nicole Hahn Rafter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Partial Justice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mary Bosworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135194021X |
Download Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is negotiated on a private, individual level, as women often resist the institution simply by trying to maintain an image of control over their own lives. However, their image of themselves as active, reasoning agents is undermined by institutional regimes which encourage traditional, passive, feminine behaviour at the same time as they deny the women their identities and responsibilities as mothers, wives, girlfriends and sisters. Femininity is, therefore, both the form and the goal of women’s imprisonment. Yet paradoxically, femininity also offers the possibility of resistance, because women manage to rebel by appropriating and changing aspects of it.
Author | : Erica Rhodes Hayden |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498542123 |
Download Incarcerated Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories accounted for a small number of inmates across the United States. Early on, they were often held in prisons alongside men and faced neglect, exploitation, and poor living conditions. Various attempts to reform them, ranging from moral instruction and education to domestic training, faced opposition at times from state officials, prison employees, and even male prison reformers. Due to the consistent small populations and relative neglect the women often faced, their experiences in prison have been understudied. This collection of essays seeks to recapture the perspective on women’s prison experience from a range of viewpoints. This edited collection will explore the challenges women faced as inmates, their efforts to exert agency or control over their lives and bodies, how issues of race and social class influenced experiences, and how their experiences differed from that of male inmates. Contributions extend from the early nineteenth century into the twenty-first century to provide an opportunity to examine change over time with regards to female imprisonment. Furthermore, the chapters examine numerous geographic regions, allowing for readers to analyze how place and environment shapes the inmate experience.
Author | : Estelle B. Freedman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472080526 |
Download Their Sisters' Keepers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America
Author | : Cyndi Banks |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003-03-24 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1576079309 |
Download Women in Prison Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A concise survey of the treatment of jailed women in America since the early 1800s, their unique problems, the effect on their families, and the state of prisons today. Focusing on an often overlooked subject, this volume explores women's incarceration, from the first women-only prison to modern state-of-the-art facilities. It explores controversies, problems, and solutions, such as excessive discipline, the lack of training programs, sexual abuse, medical services, and visitation policies. The book also investigates key issues such as the background of inmates, the disproportionate number of African American and Hispanic prisoners because of the "war on drugs," and how women cope with the separation from their children and families. A full chapter is devoted to important people and events, from the first female jail keeper in 1822 to changing prison goals and the impact of feminism.