Incarcerated Women
Subtitle: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781498542111
Subjects: Prisons, united states
Description: 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.