RT Book
T1 Recovering identity: criminalized women's fight for dignity and freedom
A1 RUMPF, CESRAEA LEONORE
LA English
PP S.l.
PB UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845113675
AB A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.<BR /><BR /><I>Recovering Identity</I> examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.<BR />
CN HV9304
SN 9780520976351
SN 0520976355
K1 Women ex-convicts : United States : Social conditions
K1 Identity (Psychology) : Social aspects
K1 Dignity : Social aspects
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 Social Science / Gender Studies
K1 Social Science / Sociology
K1 Hochschulschrift
K1 Täterin : Weibliche Strafgefangene : Rehabilitation : Reintegration : Glaube