Outlaw women : prison, rural violence, and poverty on the new American frontier / Susan Dewey, Bonnie Zare, Catherine Connolly, Rhett Epler, and Rosemary Bratton.
This text argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as 'the Western frontier.' Together, these dynamics comprise an architecture of gen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | NYU scholarship online.
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| Summary: | This text argues that unique rural cultural dynamics shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as 'the Western frontier.' Together, these dynamics comprise an architecture of gendered violence, a theoretical lens applicable to women's experiences of prison throughout the United States in its focus on how the synchronous operations of addiction and compromised mental health, poverty, fraught relationships, and felony-related discrimination undergird women's lives. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479807086 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479801176.001.0001 |