Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier

Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier
ISBN-10
1479807087
ISBN-13
9781479807086
Series
Outlaw Women
Category
Social Science
Pages
209
Language
English
Published
2019
Authors
Susan Dewey, Bonnie Zare, Catherine Connolly

Description

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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