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Jailcare - Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars (Hardcover)
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Jailcare - Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars (Hardcover)
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Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every
year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a
space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is
frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy
for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and
clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women's jail, Carolyn Sufrin
explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women
can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant
women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health
providers who care for them, Jailcare describes the contradictory
ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space
presumed to be devoid of care. Sufrin argues that jail is not
simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish. Rather,
when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence,
and racial oppression that characterize these women's lives and
their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the
margins of society.
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