UID:
almafu_9959230095002883
Format:
1 online resource (231 p.)
ISBN:
0-520-95870-5
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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List of Tables --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick --
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2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility --
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3. "The Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration --
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4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World --
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5. "It's All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic --
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6. Higher Powers: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State --
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7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted --
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8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail" --
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Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward --
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Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-28279-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-28278-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1525/9780520958708
