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

By: Golden, RennyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203942833Subject(s): Prisoners' families -- United States | Women prisoners -- United States | Women prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States | Children of women prisoners -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind.DDC classification: 362.82/95/0973 LOC classification: HV8886.U5 | G65 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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