Title:
Incarcerated women : a history of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons / edited by Erica Rhodes Hayden and Theresa R. Jach.
Author:
Hayden, Erica Rhodes, editor.
Jach, Theresa, editor.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
©2017
Call Number:
HV9466 .I53 2017
Abstract:
This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze women's efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how women's experiences differed from those of male inmates. -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781498542111
Physical Description:
xvi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
"Secret Horrors": enslaved women and children in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, 1833-1862 / "In the care of the supposed powerful state": women and children in the Virginia Penitentiary, 1800-1883 / Letters from inside: prison writings from Eastern State Penitentiary in the nineteenth century / "I thought if I got a chance I would do it": sexual negotiation by black women convicts in Texas, 1875-1915 / "I beg for your mercy": the business of black women's bodies in the carceral state, 1880s-1960s / Discipline, resistance, and social control at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, 1930-1962 / Making mothers: teaching the virtues of motherhood at Westfield Reformatory, 1950s-1960s / "It's a way to get out of prison": writing and teaching in women's prisons
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