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One of the guys
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- McKelvey, Tara > (ed.)
- Ehrenreich, Barbara > (forew.)
One of the guys
The contributors examine the expectations placed on women's involvement in violence and diverse aspects of female perpetrators of abuse and torture.- Creator
- McKelvey, Tara > (ed.)
- Ehrenreich, Barbara > (forew.)
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Feminism, sexuality, and politics
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- Freedman, Estelle B.
Feminism, sexuality, and politics
This collection brings together eleven essays--eight previously published and three new--that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it. .Following an introduction that presents a map of the personal and intellectual trajectory of Freedman's work, the first section of essays, on the origins and strategies of women's activism in U.S. history, reiterates the importance of valuing women in a society that has long devalued their contributions. The second section, on the maintenance of sexual boundaries, explores the malleability of both sexual identities and sexual politics. Underlying the collection is an inquiry into the changing meanings of gender, sexuality, and politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along with a concern for applying the insights of women's history broadly, from the classroom to the courthouse- Creator
- Freedman, Estelle B.
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Inside a gestapo prison
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- Tomaszewski, Irene > (ed. and transl.)
Inside a gestapo prison
This volume contains eighty letters that Krystyna Wituska, a young member of the Polish underground, wrote in the last eighteen months of her life. The letters, together with an introduction providing historical background to Krystyna’s arrest, describe the treatment of ethnic Poles under German occupation, the experience of Polish prisoners in German custody and a glimpse into the prisons of Berlin.- Creator
- Tomaszewski, Irene > (ed. and transl.)
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Whores and thieves of the worst kind
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- Dodge, L. Mara
Whores and thieves of the worst kind
The author describes the changing patterns of women's crime and punishment from 1835 to the present: incarcerated women from the time they entered the justice system: how factors as race, marital status, age, education and occupation affected the legal outcomes.- Creator
- Dodge, L. Mara
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Chicana lives and criminal justice
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- Diaz-Cotto, Juanita
Chicana lives and criminal justice
This study of Chicanas and the US criminal justice system uses oral history to chronicle the lives of twenty-four Chicana pintas (prisoners or former prisoners). repeatedly arrested and incarcerated for non-violent, low level economic and drug-related crimes. It also provides documentation of the history of Sybil Brand Institute, Los Angeles' former women's jail. Chicanas experience the consequences of the war on drugs in their barrios. They feel the impact of mandatory sentencing laws, failing social services and endemic poverty, violence, racism and gender discrimination.- Creator
- Diaz-Cotto, Juanita
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BookMarks
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- Holloway, Karla F.C.
BookMarks
In BookMarks Holloway explores the public side of reading and specifically how books and booklists form a public image of African Americans. Holloway reflects on the ways that her parents guided her reading when she was young and her memories of reading to her children. She takes us on a personal journey that considers the histories of reading in children's rooms, prison libraries, and 'Negro' libraries of the early twentieth century, and that finally reveals how her identity as a scholar, a parent, and an African American woman has been subject to judgments that public cultures make about race and our habits of reading. .Holloway calls our attention to a remarkable trend of many prominent African American writers--including Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Malcolm X, and Zora Neale Hurston. Their autobiographies and memoirs are consistently marked with booklists--records of their own habits of reading. She examines these lists, along with the trends of selection in Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, raising the questions: What does it mean for prominent African Americans to associate themselves with European learning and culture? How do books by black authors fare in the inevitable hierarchy of a booklist?- Creator
- Holloway, Karla F.C.
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Criminalizing women
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- Balfour, Gillian > (ed.)
- Comack, Elizabeth > (ed.)
Criminalizing women
Criminalizing women has become a trend in Western industrialized countries. In this book feminists working as advocates for criminalized women tell a different story. They explore the lives , the representations and the treatment of women in crime, the influence of gender, poverty and race, and they propose alternative strategies.- Creator
- Balfour, Gillian > (ed.)
- Comack, Elizabeth > (ed.)
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Women, law, and social control
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- Merlo, Alida V. > [ed]
- Pollock, Joycelyn M. > [ed]
Women, law, and social control
Written by leading scholars, this collection of original articles examines women as offenders, professionals, and victims. This reader explores current issues—including the increase in women’s imprisonment rates, women as rape survivors, women who kill in abusive relationships, and women working within the criminal justice system. Eleven new articles as well as numerous updated articles keep this the most current reader on women, law, and criminal justice.- Creator
- Merlo, Alida V. > [ed]
- Pollock, Joycelyn M. > [ed]
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