Details

Subject(s)

• Women prisoners—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• African American prisoners—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women prisoners—United States—History [Browse]
• African American prisoners—United States—History [Browse]
• Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States [Browse]
• Women prisoners—Abuse of—United States [Browse]
• African American women—Abuse of—United States [Browse]
• Race discrimination—United States [Browse]
• Sex discrimination against women—United States [Browse]
• Prison sentences—United States—History [Browse]

Series

Justice, power, and politics [More in this series]

Summary note

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.

ISBN

• 9781469627595 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1469627590 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2015032183

OCLC

919041802

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