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War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind /

Golden, Renny.

War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind / [electronic resource] Renny Golden. - 1 online resource (217 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Collateral damage in the war on drugs -- Joanetta's world -- Lost childhood : a family narrative -- Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella -- Expendable bodies, racialized policies -- Incarceration : theater of terror -- Teen mothers and the infants who saved them -- Children in the other America -- Gonna rise : Pam's story -- Eye on the prize : theorizing change -- What is to be done in the meantime? -- Beating the odds -- Addendum: Support programs for families of incarcerated mothers.

9780203942833 (e-book)


Prisoners' families--United States.
Women prisoners--United States.
Women prisoners--Family relationships--United States.
Children of women prisoners--United States.


Electronic books.

HV8886.U5 / G65 2005

362.82/95/0973

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