| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
"Joey spit on me" : how gender inequality and sexual violence make women sick -- "Nowhere to go" : poverty, homelessness, and the limits of personal responsibility -- "The Little Rock of the north" : race, gender, class, and the consequences of mass incarceration -- Suffer the women : pain and perfection in a medicalized world -- "It's all in my head" : suffering, PTSD, and the triumph of the therapeutic -- Higher powers : the unholy alliance of religion, self-help ideology, and the State -- "Suffer the children" : fostering the caste of the ill and afflicted -- Gender, drugs, and jail : "a system designed for us to fail" -- Conclusion : the real questions and a blueprint for moving forward |
| Summary |
"Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
american prison system |
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american studies |
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bad choices |
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boston |
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civic |
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class and gender |
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criminalization |
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cultural studies |
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day to day lives |
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discrimination |
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discriminatory politics |
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drug abuse |
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drugs |
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gender studies |
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human condition |
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incarceration |
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ineffective programs |
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local and federal government |
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mass incarceration |
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personal flaws |
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personal responsibility |
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prison system |
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prison |
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sexual abuse |
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social inequality |
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social programs |
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therapeutic programs |
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urban sociology |
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violence in society |
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violent communities |
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welfare |
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women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Abused women -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions
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Female offenders -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions
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Women drug addicts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions
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Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Abused women -- Social conditions
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Responsibility -- Social aspects
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Kvinnomisshandel.
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Kvinnliga brottslingar.
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Kvinnliga missbrukare.
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Ansvar -- sociala aspekter.
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norton-Hawk, Maureen, author
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| ISBN |
9780520958708 |
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0520958705 |
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1306945003 |
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9781306945004 |
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