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Women Doing Life - Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity (Paperback)
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Women Doing Life - Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity (Paperback)
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The carceral experiences of women serving life sentences. 2017
Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free Press
How do women - mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces and grandmothers -
make sense of judgment to a lifetime behind bars? In Women Doing
Life, Lora Bex Lempert presents a typology of the ways that
life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison
definitions, reflect on and "own" their criminal acts, and
ultimately create meaningful lives behind prison walls. Looking
beyond the explosive headlines that often characterize these women
as monsters, Lempert offers rare insight into this vulnerable,
little studied population. Her gendered analysis considers the ways
that women "do crime" differently than men and how they have
qualitatively different experiences of imprisonment than their male
counterparts. Through in-depth interviews with 72 women serving
life sentences in Michigan, Lempert brings these women back into
the public arena, drawing analytical attention to their
complicated, contradictory, and yet compelling lives. Women Doing
Life focuses particular attention on how women cope with their
no-exit sentences and explores how their lifetime imprisonment
catalyzes personal reflection, accountability for choices,
reconstruction of their stigmatized identities, and rebuilding of
social bonds. Most of the women in her study reported childhoods in
environments where violence and disorder were common; many were
victims before they were offenders. Lempert vividly illustrates
how, behind the prison gates, life-serving women can develop lives
that are meaningful, capable and, oftentimes, even ordinary. Women
Doing Life shows both the scope and the limit of human possibility
available to women incarcerated for life.
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