Woman Doing Life Notes from a Prison for Women

Name: Woman Doing Life Notes from a Prison for Women
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ISBN: 9780199734757

ISBN-10: 0199734755

ISBN-13: 9780199734757

Edition: 2010

Authors: Erin George, Robert Johnson, Joycelyn Pollock

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A Woman Doing Life is the only book that tells stories of women in prison from the inside out. Author and inmate Erin George draws a vivid and uniquely raw portrait of female life in prison, detailing her own responses to incarceration as well as her observations of prison relationships, death and sickness, reactions from friends and family, and even "cooking" in prison. The text also features poignant stories from other female inmates. Edited by Robert Johnson--esteemed scholar and editor of Victor Hassine's Life Without Parole, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009)--each chapter of the text opens with a helpful introduction that guides students as they read. An Afterword by noted scholar Joycelyn…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Jail Time



Prison Time



Love in a Cold Climate



Violence Behind Bars: Women, Mano a Mano



Shakedowns, Fakedowns, and Solitary Confinement



Quality of Life (Loosely Defined)



Living with Loss



Programs, Privileges, and Oases of Creativity



The Sick and the Dead



Other Voices, Other Venues: Self-Portraits by Women in Prison



Looking Out and Looking Back: Recidivism and Religion; Remorse and Redemption


Origami Heart



Afterword




Terms of Entanglement: A Prison Glossary



A Prison Cookbook