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1 online resource |
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.<BR /><BR /><I>Recovering Identity</I> examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.<BR /> |
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Women ex-convicts -- United States -- Social conditions
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Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
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Dignity -- Social aspects
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Social Science / Criminology.
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Social Science / Gender Studies.
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Social Science / Sociology.
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520976351 |
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0520976355 |
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