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In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving
prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of
poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures
for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear
directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal
penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women
in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information on
women's lived experiences during incarceration and what they
anticipated and hoped for on release. This book relates their
narratives and the authors' critical analysis of their experiences
both within and outside prison. By bridging relational and other
critical theories (critical feminist, critical race, critical
disability, and post-structural understandings) with lived
experience, this volume sheds light on the challenges incarcerated
women face as they seek to return to the community as valued and
contributing citizens. Community Re-Entry's unique perspective on
women's post-imprisonment policy will appeal to academics,
community-based advocates and activists, and undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying criminology and social science
courses on gender and crime, correctional policy, and qualitative
research methods.
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving
prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of
poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures
for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear
directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal
penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women
in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information on
women's lived experiences during incarceration and what they
anticipated and hoped for on release. This book relates their
narratives and the authors' critical analysis of their experiences
both within and outside prison. By bridging relational and other
critical theories (critical feminist, critical race, critical
disability, and post-structural understandings) with lived
experience, this volume sheds light on the challenges incarcerated
women face as they seek to return to the community as valued and
contributing citizens. Community Re-Entry's unique perspective on
women's post-imprisonment policy will appeal to academics,
community-based advocates and activists, and undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying criminology and social science
courses on gender and crime, correctional policy, and qualitative
research methods.
How has it come to be that paid work is seen as the primary avenue
for attaining sustenance, self-esteem, and human dignity? This book
encourages scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationships
between leisure, social policy, and human development. Drawing on
the expertise of some of the most innovative minds in the field of
leisure studies from across Canada, Decentring Work questions how
and why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of
social success and individual self-worth and, more provocatively,
investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead. The
contributors probe the dimensions of marginalization and oppression
experienced by groups such as women living in poverty, aboriginal
youth, new immigrants, and older adults and show how leisure can be
a vital element in confronting issues in the social construction of
homelessness, incarceration, dementia care, disability, and
ethnicity. Using a mix of approaches from in-depth empirical
studies to more conceptually driven discussions, the chapters in
Decentring Work weave together effectively into a treatise on
notions of work, leisure, power, and social change. This collection
is essential reading for anyone in the field of leisure studies,
recreation, or social work who is interested in the role that
leisure can and should play in reshaping human and community
development.
Unsatisfactory working conditions and job stress may be indicative
of working in a society where work-life balance is a desired, but
often elusive, goal. Working conditions in the healthcare sector
are reported to be particularly problematic and stress inducing
compared to other work sectors. This study examines quality of work
life (QOWL) from the perspective of healthcare staff. A particular
focus is on how initiatives aimed at improving QOWL affect staff
perceptions of the care they provide. The analysis should help
answer the questions: How do staff members experience their work
environment in terms of stress, work load, time pressure, and
work-life balance? What is the experience of staff relative to QOWL
initiatives? How do staff members perceive their managers in
relation to supporting their involvement in QOWL initiatives? What
role can leisure play in helping to shape QOWL initiatives that aim
to reduce work related stress and promote work-life balance? What
is the perception of staff regarding the quality of care they
provide and to what extent do they feel it is influenced by QOWL
initiatives? This book addressed to managers and healthcare
administrators. It is also directed towards researchers interested
in work life, stress, leisure, and the provision of quality care
within the healthcare sector.
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