Jailcare

Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-28868-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sufrin, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Resozialisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Sufrin is a medical anthropologist and an obstetrician-gynecologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.