Jailcare [electronic resource] : finding the safety net for women behind bars / Carolyn Sufrin.

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"Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they gestate their pregnancies in a space of punishment? Based on ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an Ob/Gyn in a women's jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how, in this time when public safety is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sufrin, Carolyn, 1975- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Women prisoners > Medical care > California > San Francisco. Pregnant women > Medical care > California > San Francisco. Reproductive health services > California > San Francisco.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Institutional burden to care
Triaging the everyday, every day
Cultivating ambiguity : normalizing care in the jail clinic
The clinic routine : contradictions as care
Gestating care : incarcerated reproduction as participatory practice
Reproduction and carceral desire
Custody as forced and enforced intimacy
At home in jail.