Incarcerated women : a history of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons / edited by Erica Rhodes Hayden and Theresa R. Jach.

This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze women's efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how w...

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