Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media

Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media
ISBN-10
1351582690
ISBN-13
9781351582698
Category
Social Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2018-06-13
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Shirley A. Jackson, Laurie L. Gordy

Description

The Netflix series Orange is the New Black has drawn widespread attention to many of the dysfunctions of prisons and the impact prisons have on those who live and work behind the prison gates. This anthology deepens this public awareness through scholarship on the television program and by exploring the real-world social, psychological, and legal issues female prisoners face. Each chapter references a particular connection to the Netflix series as its starting point of analysis. The book brings together scholars to consider both media representations as well as the social justice issues for female inmates alluded to in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. The chapters address myriad issues including cultural representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; social justice issues for transgender inmates; racial dynamics within female prisons; gender and female prison structures/policies; treatment of women in prison; re-incarcerated and previously incarcerated women; self and identity; gender, race, and sentencing; and reproduction and parenting for female inmates.

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