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

By: Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: xxv, 190 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415946700 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415946719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780415946704 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415946711 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.82/95/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8886.U5 G65 2005
Online resources:
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.

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.

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