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How Do Women -- Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Nieces And Grandmothers -- Make Sense Of Judgment To A Lifetime Behind Bars? In Women Doing Life, Lora Bex Lempert Examines The Carceral Experiences Of Women Serving Life Sentences, Presenting A Typology Of The Ways That Life-sentenced Women Grow And Self-actualize, Resist Prison Definitions, Reflect On And “own” Their Criminal Acts, And Ultimately Create Meaningful Lives Behind Prison Walls. Looking Beyond The Explosive Headlines That Often Characterize These Women As Monsters, Lempert Offers Rare Insight Into This Vulnerable, Little Studied Population. Her Gendered Analysis Considers The Ways That Women “do Crime” Differently Than Men And How They Have Qualitatively Different Experiences Of Imprisonment Than Their Male Counterparts. Through In-depth Interviews With 72 Women Serving Life Sentences In Michigan, Lempert Brings These Women Back Into The Public Arena, Drawing Analytical Attention To Their Complicated, Contradictory, And Yet Compelling Lives. Women Doing Life Focuses Particular Attention On How Women Cope With Their No-exit Sentences And Explores How Their Lifetime Imprisonment Catalyzes Personal Reflection, Accountability For

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Author

Lora Bex Lempert

Publisher

NYU Press; New York University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479866038

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Social_sciences