Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists

by Lawston, Jodie Michelle; Lucas, Ashley E.

• ISBN13: 9781438435329
• ISBN10: 1438435320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women's incarcerated experiences.

Author Biography

Jodie Michelle Lawston is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at California State University San Marcos and the author of Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners, also published by SUNY Press. Ashley E. Lucas is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina and the author and performer of the play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Charts, Tables	p. xi
3x Denied: Artist's statement	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xvii
Artist's Statement: Malaquias Montoya	p. xx
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
From Representations to Resistance: How the Razor Wire Binds Us	p. 1
Girls, Women, and Families
Missing: Artist's Statement	p. 20
Historical Contextualization	p. 23
The Voice of Silence	p. 27
Doing Time in Detention Home: Gendered Punishment Regimes in Youth Jails	p. 31
Healer: A Monologue from the Play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass	p. 49
Incarcerated Women: Motherhood on the Margins	p. 51
Doing Time with Mom: A Nonfiction Essay	p. 67
ASFA and the Impact on Imprisoned Migrant Women and Their Children	p. 75
Carceral State, Cultural Stake: Women behind American Bars and Beyond	p. 93
Sexuality, Health, and Abuse
Bound: Artist's Statement	p. 102
Historical Contextualization	p. 105
The Prison Mentality	p. 109
ôIf I Wasn't Suicidal, That'll Drive You to Itö: Women, Jail, and Mental Health	p. 115
Patiently Waiting	p. 133
Caged Innocence: Artist's Statement	p. 144
Transgender Women, Sexual Violence, and the Rule of Law: An Argument in Favor of Restorative and Transformative Justice	p. 147
Prison Rape	p. 165
From Women Prisoners to People in Women's Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary in Antiprison Work	p. 169
Giving the Voiceless a Voice	p. 185
Education, Writing, and the Arts
Caught up on the Whirlwind: Artist's Statement	p. 190
Historical Contextualization	p. 193
Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comics: Artist's Statement	p. 198
Inside-Out: The Reaches and Limits of a Prison Program	p. 203
Desiree	p. 225
Restorytive Justice: Theater as a Redressive Mechanism for Incarcerated Women	p. 229
On Visual Politics and Poetics: Incarcerated Girls and Women Artist	p. 247
Hope in a Box: Sanity Sold Separately: Sisters of Unique Lyrics (SOUL)	p. 269
The Life Inside: Incarcerated Women Represent Themselves through Journalism	p. 285
Epilogue. Identifying Marks: What the Razor Wire Hides	p. 301
List of Contributors	p. 305
Index	p. 317
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