Jailcare

Jailcare
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9780520288669
ISBN-13 : 0520288661
Rating : 4/5 (661 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jailcare by : Carolyn Sufrin

Download or read book Jailcare written by Carolyn Sufrin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they gestate their pregnancies in a space of punishment? Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an Ob/Gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how, in this time when the public safety net is frayed and incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor, jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of pregnant, incarcerated women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for them, Jailcare describes the contradictory ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space presumed to be devoid of care. Sufrin argues that jail is not simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish. Rather, when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence, and racial oppression that characterize these women’s lives and their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the margins of society.


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