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Doing time together : love and family in the shadow of the prison / Megan Comfort.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226114620
  • 0226114627
  • 9780226114637
  • 0226114635
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.82/9509749 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8886.U5 C66 2008
Contents:
Outside the prison walls -- "On-line" at San Quentin -- "We share everything we can the best way we can" -- "Papa's house": the prison as domestic satellite -- "It's a lot of good men behind walls!" -- The long way home.
Summary: "Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiance�s, and boyfriends behind bars. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into close contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into quasi-inmates, eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to low-income women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, their dealings with the prison and the social control it exerts over their lives are riven with profound ambivalence. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America's massive prison system, Doing Time Together will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture"--Unedited summary from book cover.
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Intercultural Family Seminar


Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.

Outside the prison walls -- "On-line" at San Quentin -- "We share everything we can the best way we can" -- "Papa's house": the prison as domestic satellite -- "It's a lot of good men behind walls!" -- The long way home.

"Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiance�s, and boyfriends behind bars. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into close contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into quasi-inmates, eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to low-income women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, their dealings with the prison and the social control it exerts over their lives are riven with profound ambivalence. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America's massive prison system, Doing Time Together will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture"--Unedited summary from book cover.

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