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Breaking women [electronic resource] : gender, race, and the new politics of imprisonment / Jill A. McCorkel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages )ISBN:
  • 9780814789483
  • 081478948x
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 365/.6082 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6791 .M383 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Getting tough on women: how punishment changed -- Taking over: the private company in the public prison -- From good girls to real criminals: race made visible -- The eyes are watching you: finding the real self -- Diseased women: crack whores, bad mothers, and welfare queens -- Rentin' out your head: navigating claims about the self -- Unruly selves: forms of prisoner resistance -- Conclusion: what if the cure is worse than the disease?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index.

Getting tough on women: how punishment changed -- Taking over: the private company in the public prison -- From good girls to real criminals: race made visible -- The eyes are watching you: finding the real self -- Diseased women: crack whores, bad mothers, and welfare queens -- Rentin' out your head: navigating claims about the self -- Unruly selves: forms of prisoner resistance -- Conclusion: what if the cure is worse than the disease?

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