Title: Incarcerated Women
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.
Subjects: Prisons, united states, Women prisoners, Discrimination in criminal justice administration