A Woman Doing Life; Notes from a Prison for Women
ISBN: 9780199734757 | 0199734755
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/13/2010
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A Woman Doing Life is the only book that tells stories of women in prison from the inside out. Author and inmate Erin George draws a vivid and uniquely raw portrait of female life in prison, detailing her own responses to incarceration as well as her observations of prison relationships, death and sickness, reactions from friends and family, and even "cooking" in prison. The text also features poignant stories from other female inmates. Edited by Robert Johnson--esteemed scholar and editor of Victor Hassine's Life Without Parole, Fourth Edition... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Jail Time | p. 3 |
| Prison Time | p. 26 |
| Love in a Cold Climate | p. 45 |
| Violence Behind Bars: Women, Mano a Mano | p. 54 |
| Shakedowns, Fakedowns, and Solitary Confinement | p. 61 |
| Quality of Life (Loosely Defined) | p. 85 |
| Living with Loss | p. 97 |
| Programs, Privileges, and Oases of Creativit... MORE | p. 115 |
| The Sick and the Dead | p. 130 |
| Other Voices, Other Venues: Self-Portraits by Women in Prison | p. 141 |
| Looking Out and Looking Back: Recidivism and Religion; Remorse and Redemption | p. 154 |
| Origami Heart | p. 174 |
| Afterword | p. 176 |
| Terms of Entanglement: A Prison Glossary | p. 186 |
| A Prison Cookbook | p. 196 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Erin George is an inmate at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia, where she is serving a life sentence for murder.
Robert Johnson is Professor of Justice, Law, and Society in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He has published extensively on prison and the death penalty, and is the editor of Victor Hassine's Life Without Parole, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009).
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