RT Book
T1 Jailcare: finding the safety net for women behind bars
A1 Sufrin, Carolyn 1975-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1686040563
AB 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
AB 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
CN HV8738
SN 9780520963559
K1 Women Prisoners : Medical care : California : San Francisco
K1 Pregnant women : Medical care : California : San Francisco
K1 Reproductive health services : California : San Francisco
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
K1 anthropology
K1 ethnography
K1 families of imprisoned moms
K1 imprisoned mother
K1 judges
K1 juries
K1 lawyers
K1 maternal identity
K1 maternity ward
K1 moms and convicts
K1 obgyn
K1 pregnancy and prison
K1 pregnant incarcerated mothers
K1 pregnant women
K1 prison guards
K1 sociology
K1 womens jail
K1 San Francisco, Calif. : Frauengefängnis : Medizinische Versorgung
DO 10.1525/9780520963559