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

Intro -- Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists -- Contents -- Illustrations, Charts, Tables -- 3x Denied -- Foreword -- Ruth Snyder -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: From Representations to Resistance: How the Razor Wire Binds Us -- Section I: Girls, Women, and Families -- Missing -- Historical Contextualization -- Chapter Two: The Voice of Silence -- Chapter Three: Doing Time in Detention Home: Gendered Punishment Regimes in Youth Jails -- Chapter Four: Healer: A Monologue from the Play Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass -- Chapter Five: Incarcerated Women: Motherhood on the Margins -- Chapter Six: Doing Time with Mom: A Nonfiction Essay -- Chapter Seven: ASFA and the Impact on Imprisoned Migrant Women and Their Children -- Chapter Eight: Carceral State, Cultural Stake: Women behind American Bars and Beyond -- Section II: Sexuality, Health, and Abuse -- Bound -- Historical Contextualization -- Chapter Nine: The Prison Mentality -- Chapter Ten: "If I Wasn't Suicidal, That'll Drive You to It:" Women, Jail, and Mental Health -- Chapter Eleven: Patiently Waiting -- Caged Innocence -- Chapter Twelve: Transgender Women, Sexual Violence, and the Rule of Law: An Argument in Favor of Restorative and Transformative Justice -- Chapter Thirteen: Prison Rape -- Chapter Fourteen: From Women Prisoners to People in Women's Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary in Antiprison Work -- Chapter Fifteen: Giving the Voiceless a Voice -- Section III: Education, Writing, and the Arts -- Caught up on the Whirlwind -- Historical Contextualization -- Episodes 1 and 4 of the Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comics -- Chapter Sixteen: Inside-Out: The Reaches and Limits of a Prison Program -- Chapter Seventeen: Desiree -- Chapter Eighteen: Restorytive Justice: Theater as a Redressive Mechanism for Incarcerated Women.

Chapter Nineteen: On Visual Politics and Poetics: Incarcerated Girls and Women Artists -- Chapter Twenty: Hope in a Box: Sanity Sold Separately -- Chapter Twenty-One: The Life Inside: Incarcerated Women Represent Themselves through Journalism -- Epilogue: Identifying Marks: What the Razor Wire Hides -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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.

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