Jailcare: finding the safety net for women behind bars

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Institutional Burden to Care -- 2. Triaging the Everyday, Every Day -- 3. Cultivating Ambiguity: Normalizing Care in the Jail Clinic -- 4. The Clinic Routine: Contradictions as Care -- Part II -- 5. Gestating Care: Incarcerat...

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Main Author: Sufrin, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2017]
In:Year: 2017
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Keywords:
Pregnant women > Medical care > California > San Francisco
Reproductive health services > California > San Francisco
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
San Francisco, Calif. > Frauengefängnis > Medizinische Versorgung
Women Prisoners > Medical care > California > San Francisco
anthropology
ethnography
families of imprisoned moms
imprisoned mother
judges
juries
lawyers
maternal identity
maternity ward
moms and convicts
obgyn
pregnancy and prison
pregnant incarcerated mothers
pregnant women
prison guards
sociology
womens jail
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1624703178
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Institutional Burden to Care -- 2. Triaging the Everyday, Every Day -- 3. Cultivating Ambiguity: Normalizing Care in the Jail Clinic -- 4. The Clinic Routine: Contradictions as Care -- Part II -- 5. Gestating Care: Incarcerated Reproduction as Participatory Practice -- 6. Reproduction and Carceral Desire -- 7. Custody as Forced and Enforced Intimacy -- 8. At Home in Jail -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780520963559
DOI:10.1525/9780520963559
Access:Restricted Access