War on the family
Subtitle: mothers in prison and the children they leave behind
By: Renny Golden.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Prisoners' families -- United States.; Women prisoners -- United States.; Women prisoners -- United States -- Family relationships.; Children of women prisoners -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Collateral damage in the war on drugs; title: The worlds they inhabit : Joanetta's world; title: Loss of childhood : a family's story; title: Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella; title: Expendable bodies, racialized policies; title: Incarceration : theater of terror; title: Teen mothers and the infants who saved them; title: Children in the other America; title: Gonna rise : Pam's story; title: Eyes on the prize : theorizing change; title: What is to be done in the meantime?; title: Beating the odds; title: Addendum: List of programs for families of incarcerated mothers.